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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 30, 2021, 16:14 by frederik@remote.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>the demise of Potlatch, or at least its the browser-based incarnation,<br></div><div>painfully demonstrates how out-of-date much of our beginner-level<br></div><div>documentation on the Wiki is. The "Beginner's Guide" has been<br></div><div>enthusiastically translated into 45 languages<br></div><div>(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide), and most these<br></div><div>versions have probably been bit-rotting away from the day of their<br></div><div>inception, but now they actually document something that does not work<br></div><div>any more, which is more noticeable than documenting something that is<br></div><div>"maybe a little out of touch".<br></div></blockquote><div>I removed some Potlatch 2 references<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Pick_your_mapping_technique&diff=prev&oldid=2103789">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Pick_your_mapping_technique&diff=prev&oldid=2103789</a> (that were anyway in "todo" form)<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Beginners%27_guide&diff=prev&oldid=2103770">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Beginners%27_guide&diff=prev&oldid=2103770</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>is anything else still mentioning Potlatch 2 in the English version?<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>I have a hunch that the whole "Beginner's Guide" idea needs a thorough<br></div><div>overhaul (I don't see mobile editing mentioned in many versions for<br></div><div>example, and it seems that some language versions still advise that<br></div><div>collecting GPX data is the first step before you can do anything), but<br></div><div>that's likely a major undertaking.<br></div></blockquote><div>I think that one of big problems is that it is quite overloaded.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I removed some content that seems to be not really fitting<br></div><div>*Begginer's* guide.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Beginners_Guide_1.3&type=revision&diff=2103782&oldid=2055710">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Beginners_Guide_1.3&type=revision&diff=2103782&oldid=2055710</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Join_the_community&diff=prev&oldid=2103774">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Join_the_community&diff=prev&oldid=2103774</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Beginners_Guide_1.4.2&diff=prev&oldid=2103792">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Beginners_Guide_1.4.2&diff=prev&oldid=2103792</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> -- <br></div></blockquote><div>I plan to add StreetComplete mention at <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide</a><br></div><div>in "<span id="In_a_hurry.3F" class="">In a hurry?</span>" section.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please protest if you are against doing that (yes, I am biased here so if anyone will<br></div><div>protest I will not do this).<br></div> </body>
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