[OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands
Lars Aronsson
lars at aronsson.se
Mon Mar 16 23:39:23 GMT 2009
Russ Nelson wrote:
> Okay, taking you somewhat more seriously now, the ideology that
> Ted is driving is that everything in OSM should be editable by
> everyone,
This part sounds like the very core of the wiki idea, and not at
all extremist.
> and nobody has any better edits to make than anyone else, and
> everybody gets an equal vote, and if you change something and I
> change it back, well, those are just two votes and who are you
> to override me or me override you, and when somebody moves a way
> five miles long over by one hundred feet and screws up hundreds
> of roads, well, that was just an edit, and how can an edit be
> wrong?
I don't think anybody suggested this.
> I exaggerate to make a point, obviously.
It's obvious that you do, but it's not obvious what your point is.
> As far as I can see, there is no reputation mechanism whereby
> experienced editors stand out from the noob editors, and the
> latter are reluctant to change the former's edits. And by
> definition if I don't know about it, it doesn't exist.
This sounds pretty much like somebody who grew up with Britannica
and learned about Wikipedia yesterday. Welcome to the Internet!
> In hindsight, I think that I proposed "immutable=yes" as a
> primitive and binary reputation mechanism. If anybody has any
> better ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Here's an idea: Let's make OpenStreetMap the free wiki world map.
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Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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