[OSM-talk] vandalism on OSM

[Stanislav Brabec]

Matthias Julius wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> >> Subtle vandalism will always be the hardest to spot. If it is
> >> imagined that it might become a problem, then perhaps uploading a
> >> change to anything which already existed could notify the last 1 or
> >> 2 people that amended that feature, as they are the most likely to
> >> know what is correct or be in a position to double check if they
> >> doubt what they did previously.
> >
> > This would be very useful indeed.  Not just for vandalism.
> 
> A good diff tool or better a diff API call would be helpful as well.
> With that you could periodically look over the changes in "your" area.

A completely different community project "Discogs" has following policy:
- You can subscribe to news in area of your interest.
- Voting on new data: Tell, how correct and accurate are these changes
  are.
- Vote is a privilege, new users don't have vote privilege. Automatic
  system gives or removes privilege to vote depending on defined
  criteria (number of correct submissions, voting frequency etc.)
- New data appear with "needs vote" flag, even if submitted by users
  with vote privileges.
- Data with more votes are considered as valid.

One then can decide to use or ignore data without sufficient
confirmation.

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Stanislav Brabec
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx