[OSM-dev] The wiki defines the database (was: relations)

[Sascha Silbe]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:57:07AM +0000, Andy Allan wrote:

> [...], which
> triggered a virulent campaign by the wiki-types to repeatedly delete
> the information that I had put up, [...]
Who exactly are "the wiki-types" you mention?
IMO there shouldn't be "the wiki-types" and "the mappers", those should 
be one and the same. Without defining what tags (=syntax) mean 
(=semantic), it's hard to use them properly.
 From reading the discussions regularly popping up on the mailing lists, 
I'm getting the impression there's a minority on the wiki disturbing the 
work of others. That's vandalism to me, nothing more and nothing less.
So what about trying to get this minority to stop impeding our work, 
instead of splitting ourselves into "the wiki-types" (those defining the 
semantics) and "the mappers" (those using the syntax to enter data into 
the database)?

Of course there are other ways of communicating the semantics of the 
tags you use (e.g. mailing lists), but the wiki is currently the best we 
have in terms of successful information retrieval.

CU Sascha

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