[OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

[Pierre Béland]

For the OSM Geoweek in november, Invitations are made for groups, universities, etc. to create their own Mapathon.
I suggest to transform this to an «Awesome OSM Geoweek» with focus on the quality of edits, quality of leadership, of coaching of new contributors.  Otherwise, this will simply be a «Pulse of new contributors», editing for a few hours and leaving problems to others afterward and publication of «Big numbers of Contributors» that represent minimal impact on number of Contributions but significative Quality problems. 

The same with this task. The organizers should tell us what they do to correct the situation.
 
Pierre 
 

   Frederik Ramm wrote:
Maybe it is possible to do better QA, improve editing software, or
easily fix the broken data, as suggested in various posts in this
thread, but I'd like to find the root cause of this and work on that.

Why and how did one person or a group of people who apparently lacked
the capabilities to make this activity a success, start it in the first
place? What warnings, what training material, what message of caution
could have led them to seek advice from people with the relevant
experience - or what over-optimistic "everyone can do it, no training
required" message enticed them to carry on recklessly?

Bringing dozens of new people to OSM only to delete (or significantly
overhaul) 99% of their contribution later helps nobody; it causes
unnecessary work for experienced mappers (and the DWG), tarnishes the
reputation of HOT and OSM, and discourages these people (who would have
made a valuable contribution given proper training) from contributing
further.

Bye
Frederik

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