[OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal

[Peter Miller]

On 2 Sep 2009, at 13:18, Bjarki Sigursveinsson wrote:

> I can confirm that the changes this user has made in Iceland are  
> completely disruptive and illogical. The user has gone all around  
> the country and either promoted or demoted roads in a seemingly  
> random way without any regard to the established conventions of the  
> Icelandic mapping community. I have tried communiating with this  
> user but there have been no responses. The damage that has been done  
> is way too widespread to be reverted manually.

I spoke to members of the Data Working Group recently and it seems  
clear to me (and them) that dealing with vandalism is in general a  
community problem, not their problem. They are mainly about dealing  
with those situations where a legal response is required such as  
copyright violation or where an official email might help. Banning  
people is a possible last-resort, but this does not deal with removing  
graffiti or spotting it in the first place which should be done by the  
community.

I believe that monitoring of graffiti (which this is) should be dealt  
with by the community. I believe that we need better tools to do this.  
Let's learn from the many Wikipedia 'counter-vandalism' tools which  
are available for use.[1]

I don't believe that anyone needs permission to develop, deploy or use  
such OSM counter-vandalism tools and would encourage people to do so.  
I would of course ask developers and users to follow the guidelines  
for bots.[2]


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_counter-vandalism_tools
[2]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edits/Code_of_Conduct



Regards,



Peter



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