[HOT] Worried about task 1018
Springfield Harrison
stellargps at gmail.com
Sun May 10 07:14:27 UTC 2015
Good thoughts, hope they can be implemented,
Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring Harrison
At 09-05-2015 11:29 Saturday, laura brittain wrote:
>Ideas regarding using newbs, Please embed
>instructions (and a link to Google translate or
>another) in Task manager. Please put important
>instructions in Bold Capital Letters in Task
>manager. Info on unlocking a tile isn't visible
>when you are locked in a tile and it's hard to
>realize you have to go back and do that in TM.
>Please don't let new JOSM users validate tiles
>unless they've been vetted. In my case it would
>be a disaster. HOT has been linked to all over
>in media. Of course you're inundated with newbs.
>The message out there and in tutorials is that
>anyone can help with even 20 minutes and that
>learning how takes an hour or two. Um, no. To
>avoid discouraging us, could discussions of our
>many mistakes be done off the HOT list that is
>one of the sources we go to to learn? Consider a
>message like this that pops up on unlocking a
>tile: "Thank you for mapping —please come back
>and see what yyou can do to help in the weeks,
>months, and years ahead." Finally, I'm sure a
>lot of us would love to have someone comment on
>our work and point out errors. Just remember the
>feedback sandwich: one positive feedback on
>either end of the criticism. And if absolute
>newbs aren't helpful or needed please let us
>know so we can go home. Hope this helps! Thank
>you.
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