[Talk-in] Large number of damaging edits in India

[Arun Ganesh]

Thanks everyone for helping compile the list of usernames and commenting on
the changesets. Here it is:
https://gist.github.com/planemad/67d9f427c66d41f24262689ce8bba89e

The data working group (woodpeck_repair) has cleaned up the edits of 3
users but the left were left as it is. Attempting to use the revert scripts
on them were partially successful but did not completely clean the edits.
The scripts are not very well documented and it is unclear how they should
be used to make a clean revert of all the user's edits. If anyone has any
knowledge on using the perl scripts please share.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There has been a sudden burst of editing activity in Bangalore, Mumbai and
> Jabalpur and many important roads have gone missing and replaced with
> fictional data. It looks like some kind of classroom activity but at the
> moment its unclear whats going on.
>
> Will need some help to track down the usernames that have created the bad
> data and revert them to its previous state. We still dont have good tools
> to detect and undo such edit and there is a bit of manual work involved.
>
> - Use OSM changeset analyzer to filter and mark the bad edits as harmful
> [1]
> - Once we have a list of usernames, I can run the revert-scripts to undo
> their changes [2]
> - Send a changeset message to each of these users to enquire what happened
> and provide help to contribute [3]
>
> If you have the team please review and mark the harmful ones, this will be
> a huge help!
>
> [1] https://osmcha.mapbox.com/?delete__gte=1&comment__
> icontains=creat&bbox=63%2C7%2C103%2C33&is_suspect=False&
> is_whitelisted=True&harmful=False&checked=False
> [2] https://github.com/woodpeck/osm-revert-scripts
> [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/42605833
>
>
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