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<p>I like the idea regarding a welcome message from the local community.</p>
<p>My explanation for users who registered without mapping:</p>
<p>They tried to map something, found the used editor too complicated,</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and stoped again being afraid to destroy something.</span><br>
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<p>So, I think a 1st welcome message with links to e.g. wiki, Taginfo, </p>
<p>maybe youtube and hints how to find help from locals would</p>
<p>be welcomed by every new user.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gerd</span><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Von:</b> Marc Zoutendijk <marczoutendijk@mac.com><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Samstag, 14. November 2015 23:15<br>
<b>An:</b> Clifford Snow<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Talk Openstreetmap<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [OSM-talk] Why newbies' comment/message response rate is so low?</font>
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<div class="">Op 14 nov. 2015, om 20:49 heeft Clifford Snow <<a href="mailto:clifford@snowandsnow.us" class="">clifford@snowandsnow.us</a>> het volgende geschreven:</div>
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I like that concept. I try to invite new users are in the geographic area of our meetup group. If I think they need a helpful hint I add it to the welcome message. I'd really like to automate the process. Is there a way to automate sending messages to all new
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<div class="">Given the number of weekly new mappers (around 10-12) it’s easy to send them the message individually. I have prepared a basic text that’s being used. I always check what the first edits are, and based on that I sometimes add a more personal note
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<div class="">I’ll start doing some statiscal research to see what number of mappers are really returning mappers. But this makes only sense after a few more months. I also noted that some of those mappers have registered themselves months (even years) ago
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