[Osmf-talk] Future of DWG work, copyright, vandalism

Andy Robinson blackadderajr at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 15:34:38 UTC 2012


> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frederik at remote.org]
> Sent: 07 June 2012 16:10
> To: Guttorm Flatabø
> Cc: osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Osmf-talk] Future of DWG work, copyright, vandalism
> 
> Guttorm,
> 
> On 06/07/2012 04:26 PM, Guttorm Flatabø wrote:
> > Coming from Wikipedia, the most important "drawback" as it currently
> > stands, that I see, is that the DWG has to handle all these issues in
> > the first place, and that they are handled on a non-web and less open
> > medium that a mailinglist is. I really miss to contact editors on
> > "talk pages" and discuss edits and objects publicly in a similar way
> > to how it is done with talk pages on Wikipedia (all pages on Wikipedia
> > has a talk page).
> 
> I don't like the "user talk page instead of email" concept that most people in
> Wikipedia seem to cherish. I think that the *default* for user-to-user
> communication should be that the communication is private.
> But I fully agree with you that it should be *possible* to have a public
> communication.
> 
> Ideally though, such communication should not be on the user page, but tied
> to changesets. It would be great if you could add comments to any
> changesets, and maybe even have a thumbs up/thumbs down feature for a
> changeset.

+1 (and a thumbs up ;-) )
And of course such a facility would be equally useful whether the issue is copyright, vandalism, or something else.

Cheers
Andy





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