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

[Peter Körner]

Richard Weait schrieb:
> 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?

I'm talking about building an external tool without any integration into 
osm.org, as this is what i'm capable of. This tool can be visited by any 
user and any user may do OAuth-Sign-In with this tool. The tool can't 
tell if the user is allowed to revert until he has gone through this 
procedure, so it's got to present a notice to the user that just 
authenticated and is still not allowed to use the tool.

Peter