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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Aug 20, 2022, 10:38 by georg2016@nurfuerspam.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Hi all,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Fri Aug 19 2022 22:58:04 GMT+0200 by Frederik Ramm<br></div><blockquote><blockquote>you did not even bring this up on the wiki talk page<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The wiki talk page of the "Names" page is not the place where the OSM<br></div><div>community decides how to use names though, that's why I believe that a<br></div><div>discussion - at least - here is warranted.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>here – the tagging mailing list - is also not where OSM community<br></div><div>decides, but just one more discussion place that is as much/little<br></div><div>authoritative like the wiki talk pages 🙂<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Given significantly wider and varied participation here and being<br></div><div dir="auto">more accessible while still not being a proprietary platform,<br></div><div dir="auto">mailing lists actually are much more authoritative that wiki talk pages.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Fri Aug 12 2022 14:02:11 GMT+0200 by Mateusz Konieczny<br></div><blockquote><div>2) important issues can be discussed with a wider community,<br></div><div>not just with a tiny minority using wiki talk pages<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While I consider the wiki users (and thus the talk pages) being one of<br></div><div>the biggest minorities we have – because virtually all OSM editors know<br></div><div>and use the wiki, so talk pages are literally in front of their eyes<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">only tiny minority of people reading wiki are aware of wiki talk pages,<br></div><div dir="auto">and pool of people commenting there is even tinier<br></div><div dir="auto">(this is based on my extensive OSM Wiki editing activity: getting even<br></div><div dir="auto">one response is rare, getting active discussion is extremely unusual).<br></div><div dir="auto">And responses often arrive after years, with many discussions having<br></div><div dir="auto">10+ years between people commenting.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://community.openstreetmap.org/">https://community.openstreetmap.org/</a> has decent chance to become<br></div><div dir="auto">more prominent, but for now tagging mailing list has the broadest base.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are some Slack/Discord/Telegram channels but all of them having<br></div><div dir="auto">barriers to use (but often having much better interface), but none has<br></div><div dir="auto">greater and more varied contributors, at least for now.<br></div> </body>
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