[OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

[Clifford Snow]

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:

>
> The analysis and the observations coming from it look pretty solid.  I
> am not fully convinced by the interpretation of the reasons lying
> largely in contributors taking 'ownership' of the data they contribute.
> This would in my eyes - at least if meant in terms of individual
> ownership - require the original contributors at the beginning to
> continue to be significant in terms of overall contribution volume over
> the whole time span analyzed.  This seems rather unlikely considering
> the active contributor turnover we have in general
> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Active_contributors_year.png).
>

Christoph,
As Simon said, I believe there may be some validity to Abhishek Nagaraj's
findings on ownership.  It's why so many people watch edits in their area.
They are quick to challenge poor edits in their watch area. I believe they
have a sense of ownership in the area. It's an attribute that would be nice
to encourage. I think of it more in terms of stewardship rather than
ownership, but either way, OSM benefits.

Clifford


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