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<div>Aug 25, 2022, 02:43 by georg2016@nurfuerspam.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Also the<br></div><div>~650 active wiki editors in last 30 days [2]<br></div><div dir="auto">[2] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers</a><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Note that only part of them discusses tagging, for example<br></div><div dir="auto">several of them made only edits to improve clarity of file licensing<br></div><div dir="auto">after I bothered them that file pages are not 100% clear.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or fixed typo on a page. Or improved translation clarity.<br></div><div dir="auto">Even people editing talk pages often do not discuss tagging.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While nearly all people posting here discuss tagging.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto"> is – despite being ~20<br></div><div>times bigger – still a tiny minority considering we have ~46000 OSM<br></div><div>active editors a month [3]. In that shade, talk ML as well as wiki edits<br></div><div>are both crumbs of a really big cake, and we both hope the revamped<br></div><div>forum will become a considerable chunk – so, will have a much higher<br></div><div>participation rate 🙂🤞<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Definitely.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Please do not forget also the ML has considerable barriers to use, for<br></div><div>example:<br></div><div>* It is visible on nearly no OSM web page and tool (I stumbled across it<br></div><div>after over 10 years discussing in many other channels)<br></div><div>* It makes your e-mail address public, which many users are hesitant to<br></div><div>do because of junk mail crawlers<br></div><div>* Mailman does not accept the password it sends to me, probably because<br></div><div>it contains an umlaut (clarification in progress) – not really<br></div><div>accessible in context of a world wide community.<br></div><div>* The answer to an empty mail to tagging-request@openstreetmap.org with<br></div><div>subject "help" will probably cause troubles even to a considerable share<br></div><div>of digital natives – and my parents would definitely not be able to cope<br></div><div>with it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As written: Currently, IMHO all communication channels are only<br></div><div>representing tiny minorities and no single one is sufficient for a broad<br></div><div>consensus working fine across regions, cultures and languages.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">And we need to remember this, though often there is no better alternative.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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