<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Warin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 5/04/2015 8:12 AM, Bryce Nesbitt
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<div class="gmail_quote">This mailing list community veers toward nit picking
and bike shedding, and tends to block rather than guide
forward change. It's also a tiny fraction of the mapping
community, which is sad.<br><div>
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<div><b>"Published" </b>in this sense means published on
the wiki, </div>
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By this definition a Draft proposal is published .. if taken
literally. <br>
Published ... is not a 'good' word for the intended use.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So come up with a better word.<br>Let's find common ground to improve the wiki's role in the project.<br><br><br></div><div>The misunderstanding in the role of the wiki vote has been persistent, harmful, and long standing.<br>"Approved" on an OSM project web page implies, incorrectly and quite strongly, an endorsement by the entire project.<br></div></div></div></div>