[OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

[Mikel Maron]

 blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important;  padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; }  Ok I hear you. Let me walk this back a step. Not the same standard, but a standard beyond now that gives some visibility to the process. I know there is a process of monitoring, analysis, communication and action followed by the DWG. Let's document that. And a simple not burdensome log of actions - summarizing the above. This visibility will improve community understanding of the process, help to spot trends, and improve everyone's work overall.


Mikel

On Wednesday, January 4, 2017, 5:00 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

Mikel Maron wrote:
> Reverts should be held to the same standard as imports (outside 
> of obviously urgent problems).

Where a revert of an import (or other automated edit) is done by DWG because
an import did not follow the rules, reverting that import just goes back to
the status quo ante.

That allows damage to be cancelled out and the import to be retried, later,
when the problems have been addressed. Nothing is lost to OSM or the
importer, and a lot is gained.

I would gently submit that requiring DWG volunteers to undergo through a
laborious consultation regime for every revert, simply to be able to apply
the long-standing (and well-founded) rules, would achieve nothing apart from
driving away a bunch of selfless, hard-working volunteers.

(There are no other large-scale reverts that take place in OSM to my
knowledge.)

Richard




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