[Osmf-talk] Next OSMF Board Meeting 2017-04-18

[Michael Reichert]

Hi,

Am 18.04.2017 um 13:33 schrieb Ilya Zverev:
> As far as I remember, we don't have any special policy about corporate or paid editing: as long as these editors respect the contributor's terms and answer to the community, as we all do, they are free to do anything.

But if the edits are harmful we are still free to revert them. The DWG
does not need a written guideline to block a group which has been asked
to temporarily stop its edits and discuss their edits. OSM is a
community project in the open and finally the community can forbid
anyone to edit (the DWG is the police enforcing the will of the
community and taking care for the balance of forces). Please don't
behave like a Wikipedia blocked user who argues with administrators and
claims that his editing behaviour was not forbidden.

A guideline documents how the OSM community expects organized mapping
activities to be. Organized mapping activities which don't meet the
expections of the community  will get into trouble once they have been
discovered. In reality, many groups who edit in an organized manner on
local level (fire brigades, school classes, university courses, the
local transport authority, …) will read the guideline after another
mapper tells them that they have "violated" it.

A guideline can be a shortcut for people who are in touch with a group
of organized mappers. It can replace a long email explaining why their
edits are not good and why they must discuss things first. It can (this
depends on the wording of the guideline) justify a revert which saves
the rare spare time of our volunteers cleaning a mess up but brings
along some collateral damage (reverting good edits).

Best regards

Michael



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