[OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

[Ed Avis]

Having a wiki is great but the 'anyone can edit' model is not good for pages
that are meant to be authoritative, documenting the meaning of tags in use,
or giving best practice for new editors.  Allowing instant changes to
specification documents by any user makes about as much sense as allowing
anyone to change the Potlatch code immediately.  Of course you can get the
source to Potlatch and change it, but your changes must be accepted by the
maintainer before they go live on the site.

Perhaps the tag documentation pages should be protected somehow, with changes
proposed in the Discussion section before a group of maintainers accepts them
into the main copy.  The difficulty with this is finding those willing and
suitable to act as maintainers, and avoiding Wikipedia-like power struggles.
So maybe the current somewhat chaotic situation is the best we can hope for.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>