[OSM-talk] Applicability of wiki tagging and votes: may, should or must

[Richard Fairhurst]

David Marchal wrote:
> What is the applicability of the Wiki content?

Three long-standing principles of OSM:

   1. consensus is important
   2. precedent is important
   3. patches beat "should"

The first means that you can't order the community to do things based on ten
people voting on the wiki. taginfo, major clients, and agreement on these
lists are also valid indicators of consensus, often more so.

The second means that you can't order the community to do things which break
long-established OSM good practice, even if you've voted it through on the
wiki.

The third means that you can't simply get ten votes on the wiki and require
editor or stylesheet authors to change their code or maps. A vote on the
wiki does not mean that these people have to spend hours coding something
for your new relation scheme, nor does it even mean they are obliged to
accept a patch from you if they disagree with it.

So the applicability of the wiki content is to the wiki. But it is one of
several indicators of consensus in the wider project, and it's consensus
that drives the project and tagging in particular.

Richard



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