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<div style="16px">I am pretty sure you can protect data items.<br></div><div style="16px"><div style="16px"><br></div></div><div style="16px">The cited template is transcluded into more than 380,000 pages. The most often transcluded template in the OSM wiki is used on about 78,000 pages. I do not think that a full protection was considered necessary, because we wanted to keep the wiki open and I can not recall an incident yet.<br></div><div style="16px"><div style="16px"><br></div></div><div style="16px">Of course we can discuss about locking everything down that could cause problems, but that would oppose the idea of an openly editable OpenStreetMap and it would be hard to explain that the docs are protected while everyone can just delete some area in the map.<br></div><div style="16px"><div style="16px"><br></div></div><div style="16px">I think the general move of Yuri is right (generalising and opening the machine readable docs for the community) and I appreciate that. Doing so also prevents accusations against developers as discussed initially.<br></div><div style="16px"><div style="16px"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Tigerfell<br></div></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Apr. 11, 2019, 11:30 a.m. by mark+osm@carnildo.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 03:17:27 -0400<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Yuri Astrakhan <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:yuriastrakhan@gmail.com">yuriastrakhan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:10 AM Mateusz Konieczny<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> * easy to edit by community<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> I am dubious whatever "anybody can<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> edit any preset stored as wikidata<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> items" will be considered as benefit<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">One could also doubt that allowing direct OSM and Wikipedia edits by<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">anyone would be considered as a benefit... But it does, doesn't it?<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Worst case scenario: someone breaks a preset - with so many eyes on<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">them (exposed via wiki pages, used by all editors, monitored via<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">numerous tools, cross-checked by validation queries, etc etc etc), it<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">will be fixed within minutes.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Wikipedia is a good comparison, but not in the way you intended it.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Wikipedia has special permissions for changing widely-used<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">templates or the website interface itself: the "template editor" and<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">"interface administrator" permissions. An ordinary editor can only<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">mess up one article at a time, while a template editor can mess up a<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">half-million articles in a single go, and an interface administrator<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">can vandalize every page on Wikipedia at once.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">If someone breaks the preset for something like "building=yes", then<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">sure, it'll be spotted and fixed in a matter of minutes. But in the<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">meantime, there'll be hundreds of mis-tagged buildings, many of them in<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">places that nobody will review for years.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">-- <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mark<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">_______________________________________________<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">talk mailing list<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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