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

[Peter Miller]

On 3 Sep 2009, at 14:34, Peter Körner wrote:

> 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.

Ok, so I have just had an RSS alert that Liam123 is back editing again  
today after a delay of 3 weeks. His edits are random and far reaching,  
often in Essex and Kent but also in other places. His edit log  
ominously says he is 'still editing' [1]

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/liam123/edits


Regards,



Peter



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