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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sep 12, 2023, 09:45 by talk@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Well, this one came to light only because it happened in a big city<br></div><div>where a local mapper happened to notice it. Who knows if there are<br></div><div>other bot wars going on in Siberia or elsewhere where there are very<br></div><div>few local mappers.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">To be less cryptic, it happened with bot edit I was running,<br></div><div dir="auto">and thanks for spotting this.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am always investigating some sample of bot edits so I would<br></div><div dir="auto">notice it sooner or later. Especially once initial run would complete<br></div><div dir="auto">and only new edits would appear<br></div><div dir="auto">(but again thanks for spotting it and allowing it to fix relatively quickly!)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>And I don't mean that a bot never should be allowed to edit an object a<br></div><div>second time, just that the bot owner should have to review it if that<br></div><div>bot tries to change an object twice.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">note that at least for contervandalism bots it still makes no sense,<br></div><div dir="auto">in cases when vandal attacked again<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">or all edits from some user are rolled back<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">also, if new bot edit is distinct from old one<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(but maybe I should add detector of such case into my code?<br></div><div dir="auto">though that is first time it happened...)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 09:16 +0200, Casper Kersten wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>I think we can rely on reason and logic here instead of extra<br></div><div>guidelines. This was obviously not intentional and we don't need to<br></div><div>write guidelines against it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>(Re-sent because I accidentally replied privately instead of to the<br></div><div>mailing list)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Op di 12 sep 2023 om 08:30 schreef Snusmumriken via talk<br></div><div><talk@openstreetmap.org>:<br></div><div>> I recently happen to witness an edit war between two bots, that<br></div><div>> changed<br></div><div>> a tag on an object back and forth once a day. It stopped once I<br></div><div>> pointed<br></div><div>> it out. <br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> These are the guidelines for bots<br></div><div>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> Shouldn't they be amended with something like; "A bot should not<br></div><div>> edit<br></div><div>> the same object twice"<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> _______________________________________________<br></div><div>> talk mailing list<br></div><div>> talk@openstreetmap.org<br></div><div>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>talk mailing list<br></div><div>talk@openstreetmap.org<br></div><div>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>talk mailing list<br></div><div>talk@openstreetmap.org<br></div><div>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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