[OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

[Rory McCann]

On 16/10/17 14:02, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> Rory, thanks, and that's why I think it is a bad idea to do bot edits 
> without first running it through my tool.  If we do a mass edit, we have 
> to go through a very lengthy community consensus study, which might 
> still miss things. Then the bot developer might still make an error that 
> is not likely to be caught for quiet some time, until it is very hard to 
> revert. On the other hand, if a query is made, reviewed by community, 
> and later many people try going through it, accepting and rejecting 
> changes, we will know if we caught all the corner cases like the one you 
> just gave. If noone has rejected anything for a long time, a bot can 
> simply pick up the query and finish running it.  Much safer.

I don't see how your tool will stop (say) an American making this sort
of assumption, and edit? How should community review happen in your
tool? I'm not going to monitor your wiki page. Automated edits should be
discussed on the talk or imports mailing list. But I don't think you've
done that for the queries you've done already, and I'm not sure how your
programme requires that.


> As for "community consensus" - TBH, very hard to define.

Agreed.