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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Aug 25, 2022, 02:43 by georg2016 at nurfuerspam.de:

> Also the
> ~650 active wiki editors in last 30 days [2]
> [2] > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers
>
Note that only part of them discusses tagging, for example
several of them made only edits to improve clarity of file licensing
after I bothered them that file pages are not 100% clear.

Or fixed typo on a page. Or improved translation clarity.
Even people editing talk pages often do not discuss tagging.

While nearly all people posting here discuss tagging.


>  is – despite being ~20
> times bigger – still a tiny minority considering we have ~46000 OSM
> active editors a month [3]. In that shade, talk ML as well as wiki edits
> are both crumbs of a really big cake, and we both hope the revamped
> forum will become a considerable chunk – so, will have a much higher
> participation rate 🙂🤞
>
Definitely.

> Please do not forget also the ML has considerable barriers to use, for
> example:
> * It is visible on nearly no OSM web page and tool (I stumbled across it
> after over 10 years discussing in many other channels)
> * It makes your e-mail address public, which many users are hesitant to
> do because of junk mail crawlers
> * Mailman does not accept the password it sends to me, probably because
> it contains an umlaut (clarification in progress) – not really
> accessible in context of a world wide community.
> * The answer to an empty mail to tagging-request at openstreetmap.org with
> subject "help" will probably cause troubles even to a considerable share
> of digital natives – and my parents would definitely not be able to cope
> with it.
>
> As written: Currently, IMHO all communication channels are only
> representing tiny minorities and no single one is sufficient for a broad
> consensus working fine across regions, cultures and languages.
>
And we need to remember this, though often there is no better alternative.

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