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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 18, 2021, 00:33 by graemefitz1@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class="" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 20:38, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><div><br></div><div>Have anyone asked them about their OSM accounts used for mapping?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Via user talk page<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Doesn't exist! (Although I could create it to ask them if they're real?) <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Yes, first person commenting on talk page of user/article/category/template creates it.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div class=""><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><div>- or create user page on wiki that mentions OSM user name and<br></div><div>add link to Wiki account on their OSM user profile (to avoid someone<br></div><div>just pointing at random OSM mapper)<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You mean for each person, or a "membership list" that has everybody's details on it?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>For an individual person, on their user page at Wiki and user page at openstreetmap.org.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div class=""><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ideally the same account would work for both OSM mapping and<br></div><div>for OSM WIki, but we need some workaround for now.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe a campaign to ask everybody to create their Users page, including a link to their OSM page, then after "6" months of warning, stop counting votes made by "anonymous" users? (Which I know will go over like the proverbial lead balloon!)<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>6 months sounds like a complete overkill, adding link on user page takes minutes - <br></div><div>and is necessary only if for some reason you have different username.<br></div><div><br></div><div>BTW, this change would be actually introduced by<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/change_vote_counting_rules">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/change_vote_counting_rules</a><br></div><div>that went through RfC with vote starting tomorrow.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have not noticed it before that such blank accounts without wiki edits<br></div><div>and no corresponding mapping user account are actually active in votes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I added "Impact" section to make it more explicit<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/change_vote_counting_rules#Impact">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/change_vote_counting_rules#Impact</a><br></div> </body>
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