[Tagging] Wiki vote threshold
David Bannon
dbannon at internode.on.net
Tue Mar 3 23:47:41 UTC 2015
On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 13:35 +0000, Jan van Bekkum wrote:
Jan, for a non English speaker, you put it very well !
I agree with what you have said except, perhaps dropping the voting
altogether. Voting does focus the group and as it has a formal finish
date, might (just might) encourage closure.
But overall, well said !
Incidentally, worth providing a link to proposals when you mention them.
I find it quite hard to find existing proposals, perhaps because there
are so many abandoned ones.
David
> At this moment I have three proposals the comment stage (campsite
> classification, vehicle storage, camping electricity supply) with a
> very simple purpose: to fill holes in the mapping possibilities for
> overlanders (people travelling for a long time with their own
> transport often through developing countries).
>
>
> Because I was new to the voting process I haven't sent any voting
> invitation yet. I first wanted to see how the process works.
>
>
> As stated earlier in this trail the discussion prior to the voting is
> more important than the voting itself. In my case the initial
> discussion was generally very good. Some outcomes: (1) tags become
> useful for a much wider audience by a slightly different definition,
> (2) tags need to be adapted to avoid confusion with an already
> existing tag with a different meaning, (3) English may be improved
> (important for me as a not native speaker), (4) a proposed new subtag
> is not needed because a tag covering the issue already exists. However
> the discussion also developed into questioning tagging decisions taken
> long ago that go far beyond the scope of my proposal (for example shop
> vs. amenity) and may result in people rejecting a targeted proposal
> because they want to make a very general point.
>
>
> It was also interesting to see that the number of people participating
> in the discussion is very small compared to the number of
> people mapping. Apparently tag definition isn't considered important
> by many.
>
>
> To be honest in the case of the proposal for the reception_desk I got
> the impression that one voter had collected a lobby of people not
> necessarily interested in the topic: copy/paste of comments, no prior
> participation in the discussion. This behaviour wouldn't help the
> voting process.
>
>
> At the current level of maturity of OSM new tags often start within a
> special interest group that may have its own data extraction or
> rendering tools using tags that interest them independent of their
> status. Later on the tags may be used by more people and show up in
> general rendering tools
>
>
>
> I don't think it is good to leave tags in a "floating state" for a
> long time as it will prevent people from starting to use them. It
> isn't good either to start using a tag as a kind of prototype and
> offer it for voting later on. One wants to have as much clarity as
> possible before using a tag.
>
> I would strongly prefer to have a clear definition under what
> condition a proposal passes. For example what are significant negative
> comments?
>
>
> In summary I doubt if the proposed changes will bring an improvement,
> but I wonder if we need voting at all, or only the preceding
> discussion.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Jan van Bekkum
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:47 AM Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>
> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Marc Gemis
> <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For me this shows that the current process for tag
> definition might miss a few important steps.
>
>
> +1
> The process works well then the proposal itself is refined and
> improved through the process. The vote then becomes almost
> irrelevant.
> In general the main weakness I see is lack of real use. Until
> real mappers start mapping real things, the true tagging does
> not emerge.
>
>
>
> Perhaps we could:
> Make "trial tagging" for a time, then discuss, then retag
> everything to the final scheme.
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