[OSM-talk] Adding key info from good email threads to help.osm.org? -- Re: [Tagging] name of river/admin area

[Jaakko Helleranta.com]

Yes, I did ask you to ask the Q at help.osm.org -- but I also realized that
it's a bit tedious process and will most probably result in many back and
forths even if such process would be accepted in general (that someone who
thinks this is a good thread would need to ask the original person who
asked the question to post it to help.osm..).

I'd think that it would make most sense that Someone would simply pick up
the Q "ask" it at at help.osm.org and then "answer" it with the core points
from the thread.
... That just doesn't result in an attribution nor a thread in a way that
the "organic" asking/answering of questions at help.osm does...
I think the only issues here are the odd(?) setup of one asking and
answering + perhaps to some the loss of attribution (to user accounts;
attribution is easy to write-in, of course).

So, I was really asking for thoughts on *how *to manage this process of
documenting good question+answer pairs into help.osm.org...

Cheers,
-Jaakko

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>  On 03/09/2012 21:30, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>  Is there some policy or common understanding of how key info from good
> email threads should/could be added to help.osm.org? .. I mean, it of
> course only takes someone to ask a question -- but if some_one_ wants to
> add someone's question and then answer it, too, then how does that work?
>
>  Colin: Would you like to answer your question at help.osm.org? ... (This
> seems a bit complicated, as a procedure, eih?)
>
> I *think* you are suggesting that I *ask* the question there?
>
> Once a discussion has died down, some actually result in some level of
> consensus (suprising though it may sometimes seem). It would be great if we
> could then edit out all the tangential stuff and link the original question
> to the consensus, with a link to the full debate if anyone's interested.
> Let's call it an 'FAQ'...
>
> Colin
>
>
>
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