[OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark

[Tom Hughes]

On 16/01/13 19:08, Alex Barth wrote:

> ## Terminology: "Contributor mark" vs e. g. "Attribution mark"
>
> Some have pointed out that 'attribution mark' might be a more accurate name. That might be, I don't want to change up at the moment but definitely a discussion to be had if ever we use this term more "officially" on openstreetmap.org.

I think the problem is that you are already locking in the terminology 
by using "contributors" in the URL of the landing page.

In fact that's my main problem with the terminology - the proposed 
content is not at all what I would expect to see on a page with that URL 
as the URL suggests some sort of list of contributors.

> ## Design
>
> There were comments on the design being heavy on pictures and not using the current OpenStreetMap.org template. I'm thinking these are good things. With adjustments, I'd love to keep it this way. The pictures help us communicate that OSM is created by many many, many individuals, the full screen page allows us to focus the message. And yes, there is scrolling before hitting the links. This is good as we'll want to have the space for a couple of points to get across before people jump off. It's not the case that we've got great introductory properties to link to right now :) In the future this could change: E. g. as soon as we have great introductory material we could link this more prominently "Get started mapping" above the fold. Or we could come up with a variation of the page that offers a link into an editor placing you right where you left the map.
>
> That said, we should work on taking a stronger queue from the overall osm.org appearance to link this ad stronger to OpenStreetMap:
>
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/180#issuecomment-12333532

The scrolling itself is not the problem so much as the lack of visual 
cues that you can scroll - as I said on IRC it was only after you 
started talking about a link that I couldn't see that I realised there 
was anything "below the fold" as the giant picture had made it look like 
a fixed page.

Tom

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