[OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

[Jo]

The numbers come from Frederik's map and some areas really look dramatic.
odbl.poole.ch and http://odbl.de come to very optimistic conclusions.
Possibly because they only consider the last contributor to an object or
another metric which doesn't hold water.

Jo

2011/12/14 Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>

> David
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> I'm not quite sure where you got your numbers from, but it is clear that
> in terms of outright deletions we are talking of less than 5%.
>
> See odbl.poole.ch
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> Simon
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> David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> schrieb:
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>> On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Critical mass is there, at a ratio of more than a 100/1 and that is of
>> the people who had to speak out their opinion.
>>
>> That's not the point. Since not making a decision is the same as
>> declining for the purposes of data survival, deleting a quarter to a third
>> of the map seems to me to be the project committing suicide. It will
>> improve no doubt as time goes on, but I was seriously expecting the
>> threshold to be in the 90+% of data survival to proceed.
>>
>> Yes, the 100/1 means that only a tiny fraction of the red and orange is
>> ideological, it's surely mostly about people who have moved on, in
>> interests, email addresses or mortality who we'll just never hear from. If
>> it were just their edits, I'd be much less concerned, but it's the way it
>> kills everyone else afterwards. It's even more galling when they deleted
>> the original data to make their edit, so they've effectively taken the
>> earlier work away too.
>>
>> I'll certainly be contacting people now Frederick has provided an easy
>> means to evaluate the data, but I'm not overly optimistic about people
>> replying - I run a membership database and find maybe 10% of people change
>> their email addresses each year, and half of those don't tell me, and
>> that's when they've paid an annual sub to belong.
>>
>> Is anyone going to answer the question about the threshold? I'm not being
>> rhetorical, I really would like to know.
>>
>> David
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