[Talk-us] What is appropriate procedure for putting an import proposal on the Wiki?

Kevin Kenny kevin.b.kenny+osm at gmail.com
Fri May 27 23:27:11 UTC 2016


I appear to be locked out of editing wiki.openstreetmap.org - this may
be actually the first time that I've tried, I'm not sure.

I have an account on the Wiki, I know my password, and I can
successfully bring up the interface that edits a page.

I'm trying to create a page Import/Catalogue/NYC DEP Watershed Recreation Areas
to present the formal plan for the import that I informally mentioned
on this list a few days ago.
When I try it from a desktop interface, I get the message:

To protect the wiki against automated page creation, we kindly ask you
to type the two words you see in the box below:

but there is no box, nor are there two words, nor can I find any place
to type them. I get the same symptoms on both Firefox and Chrome.

When, instead, I try it from the mobile view, it allows me to enter
the content, but when I attempt to save the page, I get

Saving edit, please wait.

and the circular icon goes round and round and round, with no effect.

I suspect that an edit of this nature requires some sort of special
privilege.  If that's the case, whom should I ask for the page to be
added? For what it's worth, the initial text is in
https://chiselapp.com/user/kbk/repository/osm-nycdep-import/raw/nycdep-import.wikitext?name=fdf1ae09a51b33a206266a446f5fb64d07e5129f
. I'd also like to add the image from
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ke9tv/14018132286/ next to the third
paragraph of 'Goals'  - possibly with the annotation:

    Original photograph copyright 2014 by Kevin B. Kenny. Released
under CC-BY-2.0.
    Design elements on the sign are and remain the registered
trademarks of New York City
    and are presented for documentary and nominative value. No
endorsement by New York
    City, its officials or its contractors is thereby implied.

But I can't find any place, unlike what I see at most MediaWiki sites,
where the image can be uploaded.

Once that's done, I want to make the appropriate row in the table in
Import/Catalogue.

Where do I go from here? Is there a channel for submitting these
things that I cannot find?



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