[OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

[Pieren]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> As for every tag going to Map Features, maybe it really is time we split -
> put everything that is widely used on Map Features, and make another page
> with "Other Features" where we have all those that have been proposed and
> accepted or rejected in a vote but aren't yet widely used.
>

I agree that it is time to moderate the size of the Map Features page
and follow what is writen in the introduction:
"This page contains a core recommended feature set and corresponding tags."
But this implies to modify and split the templates and duplicate the
work for all translations (currently between 15 and 20 !). It would be
a good opportunity to re-arrange the existing page "Approved Features"
: rename it as "Other Features", link it clearly from the "Map
Feature" header and create similar groups.

The next problem is that nobody is able to claim that a tag belongs to
a core feature or not... although some of them seem to be obvious and
have been already listed here (bus_guideway, etc).

Also tagwatch could help in that way. But if tagwatch can show the
(un)popularity of old documented tags, it cannot help for new tags.

Finally, to stop this edit war, I would suggest to move the page
Smoothness out of the "Map Features" and re-open a discussion from the
proposal. But I would also show the fact that it was approved by
keeping the entry in the "Approved Features" with a note that strong
oppositions and open issues have to be fixed before it goes to the
"Map Features".

Pieren