[Talk-ht] Onboarding new mappers

[Karl Guggisberg]

Hi Pierre

> I can communicate, but not sure yet of doing everything things 
> properly. I have edited some wiki pages, but not sure how to identify 
> myself. The member guggis told me to add four ~~~~~ and test with the 
> sandbox page. I edited the sandbox page and since then only my name 
> appears on that page. These type of things don't give you to much 
> confidence that you can communicate in the wiki without erasing 
> everything.
... this reminds member guggis (aka myself) to be more precise when 
giving advice ;-)  Don't worry, a sandbox is a sandbox. And it only 
requires three mouse clicks to undo whatever one does on  the wiki. Test 
it out yourself:
* go to the sandbox http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sandbox
* click on the tab "history"
* click on "undo" for one of your entries
* click on "Save"

> Also, from one wiki page project to the other, ways of communicating 
> are different. When we work on a project (by exemple rivers), should 
> we indicate it in the wiki page of the project or instead send a mail 
> to the talk-ht?
Unfortunatelly, yes. But hopefully we're going to change that in the 
future, see what Mikel wrote here: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Haiti_Strategy_And_Proposal#Social_Processes

Regarding rivers: if you're refering to 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Tasks_and_Ideas/RiverLabeling 
then try again to edit the section "Who is involved?" and add your 
signature (~~~~).  Sending a mail to talk-ht is fine too.

> On the page WikiProject Haiti/Tasks and Ideas/RiverLabeling, it is 
> often said /*need link to the OSM object*/. What this means?  And from 
> the successive ways composing a river, those a hierarchy object have 
> to be created. If so, How?
Every node or way in OSM has a unique number. way 30048192, for 
instance, is road in Port-Au-Prince. For every object there is a link 
where you can browse the object, i.e.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/30048192. If someone is looking 
for the link to an OSM object he is looking for this link.

Regards
Karl
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