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

Tobias Knerr osm at tobias-knerr.de
Fri Apr 3 14:39:40 UTC 2015


On 03.04.2015 11:22, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> The proposal on the table is to change the wiki status of "Approved" to
> read "Published"

I would prefer to stay with "approved". Using "published" would not
actually make things clearer, quite the opposite: Using the normal
meaning of "published", a proposal is published as soon as someone hits
the save button.

> The feeling is the term "published" is less
> likely to cause new mappers to incorrectly weight the tagging
> conventions described on the wiki.

Placing more weight on tags that are the result of public discussion and
represent a consensus among interested mappers is actually a good thing.




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