On 10/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Carden</b> <<a href="mailto:tom@tom-carden.co.uk">tom@tom-carden.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Etienne wrote:<br>> Once the wiki and OSM user names have been unified this makes a lot of<br>> sense. At the moment the OSM username is not very prominent and can<br>> be altered by the user at any time.<br><br>
Ah yes, that should be fixed I think... changing user names but not<br>emails is a bit weird - should be the other way around! Steve is this<br>catered for in your rails port?<br><br>> The wiki Id is more persistent. The user's home page on the wiki is
<br>> also the most obvious place to document tag usage guidlines.<br>><br>> Hopefully the two will get unified sometime soon - which will be the<br>> master when that happens?<br><br>I think that tying the OSM database to the wiki would be a Bad Thing, as
<br>the wiki might not be the focus of activity for ever. So hopefully your<br>OSM log-in will work on the wiki at some point (and not the other way<br>around).<br><br>I don't really want to get drawn into another conversation about whether
<br>the wiki is more important than the main site (which I consider to be<br>API, traces pages and of course the database). That said, I continue to<br>think of the wiki as a support function to <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">
openstreetmap.org</a> (and hence<br>I think it's a bad idea to point www at wiki). I know you disagree, and<br>I concede that far more useful stuff has sprung from, and is organised<br>around, the wiki than www.</blockquote>
<div><br>I don't disagree - but I do think that OSM has a very powerful and active non-developer community and the wiki has become a focal point for a lot of their ideas and contributions. This is, I think, an unexpected outcome but not one that should be discouraged.
<br><br>I wish that the main OSM site could do more to support the community, but I understand the time it takes to develop good stuff.<br><br>Etienne<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tom.<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>