[Tagging] Proposal: Rename wiki status "Approved" to "Published"

Jan van Bekkum jan.vanbekkum at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 10:05:09 UTC 2015


Will it be clear for new mappers what the difference is between published
and documented (i.e. someone created a wiki page that describes a tag
without voting or one that didn't collect enough votes)? Wouldn't endorsed
be better?

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:30 AM Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-04-03 10:22 GMT+01:00 Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:21 PM, François Lacombe
> > <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> +1 with Bryce and "published" instead of "approved"
> >> +1 with Ole regarding power features
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> François
> >
> >
> > So let's see if we can make it happen.  The question of what wiki
> approval
> > means has been a thorn for a long time.
> >
> > The proposal on the table is to change the wiki status of "Approved" to
> read
> > "Published",
> > with no other changes.  The feeling is the term "published" is less
> likely
> > to cause new mappers to incorrectly weight the tagging conventions
> described
> > on the wiki.
> >
> > This change requires Wiki administrator cooperation and buy in, to
> > implement.
>
> I like this idea. This will help reduce dogmatism.
>
> Does this proposal need a wiki page? (I'm not trying to be ironic, just
> asking)
>
> Dan
>
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