On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 11:02, pangoSE <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Jo <[email protected]> skrev: (22 augusti 2020 11:44:49 CEST)
> >On Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 11:30 pangoSE <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi 😀
> >>
> >> Mateusz Konieczny <[email protected]> skrev: (22 augusti 2020
> >> 10:51:49 CEST)
> >> >(1) Wikipedia may strongly encourage or mandate it in theory, but
> >there
> >> >are
> >> >still edits being made without any citations
> >>
> >> Yeah I know, but the point is its really hard to create a new article
> >in
> >> WP without references without it being flagged for deletion. So by
> >> "threatening" with deletion they raise the bar for inclusion and
> >hence
> >> hopefully raise the quality too. We have no system to flag for
> >deletion,
> >> nor to verify an object.
> >>
> >
> >I find this highly annoying on Wikipedia and it is the reason I don't
> >contribute there anymore.
>
> Interesting. I guess you are not the only because
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionpedia exist.
> I don't propose we annoy our users the same way, because the downside is
> fewer editors.
>
> I guess its a choice on an continuum between general low quality edits and
> many editors and generally higher quality edits and fewer editors.
>
> Right now OSM accepts almost any crap edit you can throw at it with a big
> thank you and we have no really good way of measuring the quality of what
> remains after our sometimes spotty QA.
>
> I would like to help change that by providing better tools for
> verification and follow up of things you added/edited in the past.
>
> I would very much love a telegram bot flagging a new user making an edit
> to an object I help curate, but no such tool exist to my knowledge today.
>
OSMCha tags new users and offers RSS feeds for saved filters. I'm not aware
of  a way to do this for "ways once touched by [username]" though.

>
> WDYT? Would such a tool be nice to have?
>
> Cheers
> pangoSE
>
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