[OSM-talk] highway=* + area=yes vs area:highway=*
Christoph Hormann
osm at imagico.de
Sat Aug 11 08:06:21 UTC 2018
On Saturday 11 August 2018, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> >
> > The wiki has definitely had problems recently and we should have a
> > good discussion about what we want from it.
>
> I don’t know since when you are following the wiki development, but
> from my point of view, there is nothing that would be worse
> “recently” that couldn’t have happened 10 years ago. On the contrary,
> I think it is now more stable and there are more eyes on it than
> before. It seems, questionable edits are often discovered and
> reverted within some hours or few days, while it took months and
> years when there were only few users.
This is part of the problem. There is a certain trend towards a
wikipediarization of our wiki in the sense that there are many active
editors who essentially try to maintain the status quo in tag
documentation, even if it does not represent how a tag is used or who
try to document a subjective view what a tag should mean instead of
documenting how it is actually used.
In other words: If tag documentation pages on the wiki are out of touch
with the reality of tag use this is often not the result of
undiscovered questionable edits but because active wiki editors want
them to be this way or don't care they are this way. We don't really
have a mechanism that forces or even incentivizes editors to ensure
documentation is accurate.
This is not a new phenomenon - like in wikipedia this is a fairly
natural result of the transit from expansion (where edits were
predominantly writing new documentation) to maintainance (with
predominantly changes of existing documentation).
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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/
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