[Osmf-talk] Joining OSMF - welcome pack suggestion

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

Dear Harry,

Thank you. Everything is clear.

With best regards,
Oleksiy

On 05.11.16 22:34, Harry Wood wrote:
> Thanks Oleksiy. I ran those pages through a spell checker to fix those 
> things plus a few others. Always a good thing of course. The 
> osmfoundation.org site has a lot of pages of meeting records, often 
> dumped from IRC, so no need to fix the spelling mistakes site-wide, 
> but obviously there's a handful of important content pages, and a fair 
> few more minor content pages, all of which should be well written.
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> Beyond spelling mistakes, I think I'm going to focus a bit of 
> attention on the "working groups" pages, and this is something I would 
> like to ask each of the working groups to help out with a little bit. 
> Maybe I'll review and then send some nag emails more directly to the 
> working groups, but if they would like to pre-empt me on that and make 
> fixes/updates that would be welcome.
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> We have a small group of website editors. It's not an open wiki 
> website. Sorry for the confusion. I've added a clarification to the 
> login page there with some linked details.
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> By the way we're going to have a Communication Working Group meeting 
> in a few weeks time. Email us on communication at osmfoundation.org if 
> you'd like to get involved.
>
> Harry
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> *From:* Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>
> *To:* Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk>; "osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org" 
> <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org>
> *Cc:* Janet Chapman <j.chapman at tanzdevtrust.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, 5 November 2016, 8:59
> *Subject:* Re: [Osmf-talk] Joining OSMF - welcome pack suggestion
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> On 03.11.16 23:20, Harry Wood wrote:
>> ... content on the osmfoundation.org site, where ...  (... this is an area we should work on too ...)
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> Dear Harry,
>
> I started to proofread the content of the osmfoundation.org website. 
> Here are the first suggestions for correction:
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> page:
> http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/About_The_Licence_Change
> the misspelled word:
> *Contribtutor
> *should be Contributor
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> http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_and_Legal_FAQ
> *advertisment
> *should be advertisement**(2 times on this page)*
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> *I do proofreading with a PHP script which crawls website pages and 
> finds misspelled words automatically. The problem with spelling errors 
> is that they may confuse search engines (and their users), besides 
> correction of such errors is a part of the so-called pre-translation, 
> - if in future one decides to translate website in other languages, it 
> would simplify computer-assisted translation significantly. Let alone 
> that it improves the general quality of a text.
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> However, I encountered the following problem. In meetings minutes 
> there are a lot of just mistyped words, dozens and dozens of them. For 
> example:
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> http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_Minutes_2014-04-29*Buisness
> *http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/CWG_meeting_2011-10-31*transparencey
> *http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/CWG_meeting_2011-10-10 *de**-comission
> *http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/SWG_2011-03-11*Conusmers
> *http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters_Working_Group/Meeting_2013-03-21*basicly 
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> I tried to login osmfoundation.org website and correct these obviously 
> misspelled words, but my login from the OSM.org website did not 
> work.**At the same time it is hard to select significant errors in the 
> noise created my mistyped words in minutes.**It would be better to 
> correct all obviously misspelled words, so that remaining ones stand 
> out more visibly.*
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> *I can either correct typing errors myself if I could login, or 
> prepare an exhaustive list of these spelling errors if I knew that 
> this long (and time-consuming to prepare) list will be actually used.*
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> *With best regards,
> Oleksiy
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