[OSM-talk] Make Messaging public, or other changes?

[Pieren]

I don't understand the direction of this thread. Frederik is talking
about "old users" protecting their area agains newcomers, not about
"new users" making possible mistakes. This happens through
intimidation through the private messaging system.
I'm also against making everything public. As already said, we could
then just remove this media and restrict the communication through the
wiki.
A possible solution would be to automatically insert a header in all
private messages with a link to a page explaining in short sentences
the 3 or 4 main issues of the project ("don't use copyrighted
sources", "methods to avoid edit war", "it's open/free", "search
consensus", etc)
Pieren

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > * When a person signs up to OSM, ask him a few multiple choice questions
>> > to
>> > make sure he has the mastered the basics.
>>
>> I think the barrier for entry for OSM is already too high, just
>> signing up probably deters a lot of useful committers already who'd
>> otherwise have made small and useful changes (see e.g. how many useful
>> one-off edits Wikipedia gets). Making new users undergo some sort of
>> test they'd have to study for would mean even fewer users
>> contributing.
>
> Well, in the section of the map I'm editing we're not like wikipedia. Casual
> users are much more likely do damage something than they are to fix
> something. And I would hope that they would at least contribute their local
> knowledge e.g. PoIs, but they don't.
>
> We don't (yet) have the revert and diff tools that wikipedia does.
>
> The test would be a very simple comprehension test that will not require
> studying or knowledge of English grammar. All the questions can be about
> matching photographs (e.g. a footbridge or a typical 4 way junction) to an
> OSM representation / tagging. People who fail the test can still use
> openstreetbugs.
>
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