[Tagging] Colour coding of wiki description boxes

[Matthijs Melissen]

On 6 May 2015 at 17:41, moltonel 3x Combo <moltonel at gmail.com> wrote:
> It'd only be reasonable if those people were contacted. Discussions on
> [tagging] or [talk] or the wiki are *not* a good way to contact
> mappers for democratic opinion-gathering purposes. OSM doesn't have a
> policy that interested contributors have to participate on this or
> that dicussion medium. I've joined [tagging] very late in my OSM life
> (and can't afford the time to read it all), but I've always been very
> interested in any change to the data I've contributed.

Unfortunately, contacting mappers individually has a very low response rate.

For my bookmaker changes, I contacted 20 mappers individually through
the OSM messaging system. All of them were frequent mappers (17 of
them had more than 1000 changesets). I only received a response from
three of them. This was to ask me help with retagging, but I'd guess
asking them for their opinion would give a similar low response rate.
With less frequent mappers, I'd expect the response rate to be even
lower. So asking every single mapper of a certain tag for their
opinion is not really an option, I think.

-- Matthijs