[OSM-talk] Administrators (was More vandalism)

[Dutch]

Thanks, but no thanks. Appointing administrators will IMHO just create
mini-sirfdoms, either right away or in time.

Considering the scope of OSM, we've had only one "editwar" where you
can say that bad edits where done purposefully.This case AFAIK has
been resolved to the satisfaction of the greater OSM community, with
the help of Michel Maron as the mediator, even if it in the cyprus
case, AFAIR resulted in banning a user. IMHO, there is no need (at the
moment) for appointing "reegionadministrators" to govern edits in
designated regions of the map.

Bad edits will happen, just as bad data will be bulkimported, and this
data will be weeded out over time, by other users in the local area
involved. If (or more likely, given the nature of misguided
nationalistic persons, when) we have another editwar where "bad edits"
are done on purpose, I have no doubts that the experiences from the
Cyprus case, will be put to good use, and that OSM as a community will
find a way to deal with them in a manner that benefits the community
on a case by case basis.

Dutch

2008/10/20 Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com>:
> Well, isn't it time then that we then appoint administrators ?
>
> Wikipedia had them since soon after their formal launch :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators&oldid=294538
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#History
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>>
>> It is easy in cases where someone says "oops I made a mistake here, can
>> someone help fixing it". But in cases where someone says that someone else
>> is doing bad work and that someone else is not available for comment, should
>> I really simply remove their contributions? I don't feel I have a right to -
>> there is no law against bad edits!
>>
>> I really want to do the project good, but I have a feeling that reverting
>> edits that are considered bad by a few users is probably abusing my powers
>> as a script writer. I would do that for an area I know and where I could
>> conceivably also fix things by hand, but for Pretoria...?
>>
>> What whout the others suggest? Or do if they were me? I could of course
>> just publish the script (those with a clue can write their own anyway), but
>> would this perhaps run the risk of giving tools to clueless people that they
>> cannot wield properly?
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
>> --
>> Frederik Ramm  ##  eMail frederik at remote.org  ##  N49°00'09" E008°23'33"
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