[HOT] Validating & TM2 - providing feedback to new mappers

[Severin Menard]

Hi all,

Thinking aloud, would not be possible (actually asking tech people) to have
a tool allwing the following:
- detecting changesets with hotosm hashtags and picking up the username
- comparing the username to a list of HOTOSM contributors and stating if it
is new or not and already validated for a certain numbers of quality items
(like drawing buildings correctly, drawing roads correctly, tagging roads
correctly, etc.)
- when contributors have not been validated yet, a task is sent to a
validation team
- one team member picks up the task, check, validate the work of the
contributor and contact her/him if some mistakes. A form would be great,
with checkboxes for typical errors, and if making a typical one, the
contributor would receive in the answer link to the Learning point (there
are already quite a few in LearnOSM) dedicated to this error
- once done the hotosm contributor quality status for this contributor
would be: good for such and such aspects, bad for such and such ones and
the latter would then be tasked in the future for validators as soon as
this contributor would submit a new changeset

Thoughts?

Sincerely,

Severin


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Nick Allen <nick.allen.54 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Pierre,
>
> A help channel or some form social help channel would be good, but in
> order to ask for help, the mapper needs to realise they are doing something
> wrong, or don't know how to do something.
>
> The new mappers in this thread are consistently asking for someone to
> check their work, and provide feedback so they know what to do to improve.
> The validation process is good for this as well as quality control - but it
> would be nice if we made it easier for the new mapper to receive the
> comments, and if needed for the validator to pass them.
>
> I don't know if it is easily achievable, but perhaps a system where the
> validators comments are more easily available to the mapper, unless they
> opt to not receive them. I know that MSF & BRC were keen to offer help, and
> I know that the few mappers that have replied to this thread are asking for
> this feedback.
>
> It would be good if more mappers replied, especially if they are new, so
> we have an idea as to whether it is worth investigating further.
>
> Regards
>
> Nick (Tallguy)
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