<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div>For the OSM Geoweek in november, Invitations are made for groups, universities, etc. to create their own Mapathon.</div><div><br></div><div>I suggest to transform this to an «Awesome OSM Geoweek» with focus on the quality of edits, quality of leadership, of coaching of new contributors. Otherwise, this will simply be a «Pulse of new contributors», editing for a few hours and leaving problems to others afterward and publication of «Big numbers of Contributors» that represent minimal impact on number of Contributions but significative Quality problems. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The same with this task. The organizers should tell us what they do to correct the situation.<br></div><div class="ydp8d5b5348signature"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"> <br><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font><br></span></div></div>
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<div>Frederik Ramm wrote:</div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">Maybe it is possible to do better QA, improve editing software, or<br clear="none">easily fix the broken data, as suggested in various posts in this<br clear="none">thread, but I'd like to find the root cause of this and work on that.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Why and how did one person or a group of people who apparently lacked<br clear="none">the capabilities to make this activity a success, start it in the first<br clear="none">place? What warnings, what training material, what message of caution<br clear="none">could have led them to seek advice from people with the relevant<br clear="none">experience - or what over-optimistic "everyone can do it, no training<br clear="none">required" message enticed them to carry on recklessly?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Bringing dozens of new people to OSM only to delete (or significantly<br clear="none">overhaul) 99% of their contribution later helps nobody; it causes<br clear="none">unnecessary work for experienced mappers (and the DWG), tarnishes the<br clear="none">reputation of HOT and OSM, and discourages these people (who would have<br clear="none">made a valuable contribution given proper training) from contributing<br clear="none">further.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Bye<br clear="none">Frederik<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a shape="rect" href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<div class="ydp7f3edf9dyqt9499268192" id="ydp7f3edf9dyqtfd95086"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">talk mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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