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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 18, 2021, 00:20 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 22:30, 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>Note: this post is kind of experimental and attempt to<br></div><div>expand a bit number of people editing and improving wiki.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For various reasons number of people editing wiki is much<br></div><div>smaller that number of people participating in tagging<br></div><div>discussions, and while I am trying to be objective it<br></div><div>is not a good idea to have tiny group of people writing most of<br></div><div>summaries of tagging discussions and documenting de facto tags.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for starting this, Mateusz<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think part of the problem is that actually editing the wiki is <i>not</i> a user-friendly procedure :-(<br></div><div><br></div><div>It may make sense to people who talk computer, but to the rest of us, it's a collection of funny marks & symbols that apparently mean something! (& which for some reason don't always have the same result?)<br></div><div><br></div><div>The other thing is that a lot of people may be scared of doing something & so leaving themselves open to the chastisement, & sometimes abuse, that follows when other people don't like what's been written :-(<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Is there anyone who is unable/uninterested in editing wiki but is capable of uploading<br></div><div>image? And letting me know that they did that, so I can add the image?<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example upload may be done following ways: <br></div><div><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">- https://commons.wikimedia.org/</a> ( <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard</a> )</div><div>- or somewhere else and posting it together with following text<br></div><div>"this photo is something that I took and I irrevocably grant anyone the right to use this work<br></div><div>under the following license <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en</a>"<br></div><div>(see linked page for summary of consequences) - so I can copy it to Wikimedia<br></div><div>and it would become usable on Wii<br></div><div>- or post i to Flickr and select permissive licensing in settings (allowing commercial use<br></div><div>and derivative works)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Or is it also too complicated?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Specifically, photos illustrating:<br></div><li><span class="">- </span><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=tertiary_link" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=tertiary_link</a><br></li><div>- <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=mobile_money_agent">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=mobile_money_agent</a><br></div><div>- <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shelter_type=weather_shelter">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shelter_type=weather_shelter</a><br></div><div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:oneway:bicycle=yes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:oneway:bicycle=yes</a><br></div><div>(where it is not a duplicate of oneway=yes)<br></div><div><div>- <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:social_facility=nursing_home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:social_facility=nursing_home</a></div><div>(preferably not a photo of random building from outside)<br></div></div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div>(obviously if someone find matching photo on Wikimedia Commons it would be<br></div><div>even better - the same effect, less effort)<br></div> </body>
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