[Tagging] I am reverting an edit to the "Names" page on the Wiki -- where to discuss that topic

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Aug 20, 2022, 10:38 by georg2016 at nurfuerspam.de:

> Hi all,
>
> Fri Aug 19 2022 22:58:04 GMT+0200 by Frederik Ramm
>
>>> you did not even bring this up on the wiki talk page
>>>
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>> The wiki talk page of the "Names" page is not the place where the OSM
>> community decides how to use names though, that's why I believe that a
>> discussion - at least - here is warranted.
>>
>
> here – the tagging mailing list - is also not where OSM community
> decides, but just one more discussion place that is as much/little
> authoritative like the wiki talk pages 🙂
>
Given significantly wider and varied participation here and being
more accessible while still not being a proprietary platform,
mailing lists actually are much more authoritative that wiki talk pages.

>
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> Fri Aug 12 2022 14:02:11 GMT+0200 by Mateusz Konieczny
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>> 2) important issues can be discussed with a wider community,
>> not just with a tiny minority using wiki talk pages
>>
>
> While I consider the wiki users (and thus the talk pages) being one of
> the biggest minorities we have – because virtually all OSM editors know
> and use the wiki, so talk pages are literally in front of their eyes
>
only tiny minority of people reading wiki are aware of wiki talk pages,
and pool of people commenting there is even tinier
(this is based on my extensive OSM Wiki editing activity: getting even
one response is rare, getting active discussion is extremely unusual).
And responses often arrive after years, with many discussions having
10+ years between people commenting.

https://community.openstreetmap.org/ has decent chance to become
more prominent, but for now tagging mailing list has the broadest base.

There are some Slack/Discord/Telegram channels but all of them having
barriers to use (but often having much better interface), but none has
greater and more varied contributors, at least for now.
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