[OSM-talk] Brainstorming: Simple Revert-Tools - work for copywriters!

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Peter Körner<osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:
>> Making 10 changesets of more than 10 features each over a period of at
>> least 2 weeks without attracting reverts or complaints should be
>> sufficient I would have thought. That would mean that a newbie who gets
>> on with it can be 'established' within 2 weeks. I think that was how
>> long it took me to get rights to upload images to Wikipiedia. Some
>> vandals will slip through, but that is fine - we can deal with them in
>> the usual way.
> We'll have to build a simple, calculateble and provable explanation from
> that, that every newbee understands. Also we should create a error-text
> that the tool displays when the conditions are not (yet) matched. This
> text should not demoralize the avarage user and tell him how long it
> will take until he can use this tool and why he can't use it yet. Any
> copywriter out here?

The revert button (or other UI decoration) should not appear for users
that are not logged-in.  Perhaps revert should be invisible for users
that are not yet able to revert?