[OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist (community wishlist built experimentation)

[sly (sylvain letuffe)]

On jeudi 18 octobre 2012, Paweł Paprota wrote:
> It's great that you are driving this. One potential use of such list 
> would be defining the Top Ten Tasks list. 
A list with that name allready exists, therefore I don't want to say that this 
list "would define" the TTT
However, any admin is of course welcome to feed a part of the TTT with idea 
from that new list.
Hi Pawel,

> * From my experience form of presentation matters when trying to explain 
> complex things to people. Right now there is a lenghty first paragraph, 
> there is no Table of Contents. 

I do admit the first paragraph is huge, but it serves the purpose of scaring 
away un-serious people.
And I find the wiki Table of content format problematic in such case, see :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.7
You first read "At this point, we're brainstorming new/changing features for 
API version 0.7."
and then you jump to real ideas, forgeting to read the "Brainstorming" 
importante part.
But why not trying after all, that shouldn't be a big deal.

> Of course there is always the question if we really care about people 
> who have so short attention span that they can't get through a large 
> chunk of text but that's another discussion...

That the people I want to contribute ;-)
 
> * Similar to above point - page title. I would suggest something that 
> "rolls off the tongue" 
Does a page named TTT has better audience than one named CFW ?
I don't know, and don't really care as long as the title express what it is, 
but if someone finds a title fullfeeling both objectiv, I'll be glad to 
change !

> Perhaps something like Community wishlist or 
> similar?
I've been thinking about that, and, well, why not. The 1st sentence should 
clear the fact it is not about "distributing T-Shirts to mappers"

> Ironically, none other than the Top Ten Tasks list has a good example of 
> this, see template:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:TopTenTask

Complex..., I don't want to attract wiki experts but contributors.
 
> I would think about making similar template but more community-focused 
> so no technology list but something more useful to non-developers.

Unless if you come with something nice ? (I'm a wiki noob and hate spending 
time to understand complex templates items)

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