[OSM-talk] Brainstorming: Simple Revert-Tools

[Someoneelse]

It seems to me that the biggest problem is often spotting that vandalism 
has taken place soon enough.

Elsewhere people have talked about setting up a "vandalism@" alternative 
to the talk list.  It would be useful to see recent edits by "known 
vandals" (perhaps automatically mailed to the list with a unique subject 
header including the changeset ID) allowing people to "claim" a 
changeset, saying either "I'll revert it" or "I know that's wrong but I 
don't have time/ability to revert it now".

The sooner an incorrect changeset is seen, the more chance there is of a 
clean revert without the need for manual intervention.

The GB_revert_request_log in the wiki is a nice idea, but editing a wiki 
table is a pain, and people are just getting on with reverting RR8's 
incorrect edits local to them rather than keeping the table up to date 
as they go.

The OSM "history" tab unfortunately shows "edits in a box, which can be 
quite large" not "edits in the area that you're looking at".  ITO's OSM 
mapper is great, but would be even more so if it were not a couple of 
days out of date, and if the changeset number of a displayed change was 
visible earlier (in the Sessions list perhaps?).

Determining "who is a vandal" could be contentious of course, but 
perhaps we could start with "I'm user ABC from area DEF, and I've 
looking at the edits made by user GHI and they don't look correct". 
After a couple of citations (as has happened on the talk list with 
liam123 and RR8) it would make sense to have details of all their 
changesets posted to a "vandalism@" list.