[OSM-talk] Unify Mapping and wiki accounts? -- WAS: Vote cheating?

[john whelan]

Sounds sensible.

Cheerio John

On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:04 Andrew Hain, <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Interesting idea. The wiki dates from before OAuth of course, even before
> the fiddle we implemented for trac and the forum. It must be just about the
> only internal communication space not using the main accounts.
>
>
> --
>
> Andrew
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Richard <ricoz.osm at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 18 March 2018 19:45
> *To:* James
> *Cc:* OpenStreetMap talk mailing list
> *Subject:* [OSM-talk] Unify Mapping and wiki accounts? -- WAS: Vote
> cheating?
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:18:38AM +0000, James wrote:
> > You could also argue the opposite way: Not everyone in OSM edits the
> wiki,
> > thus probably doesnt have an account, thus to participate, they need to
> > create an account to vote
>
> fundamental decission - maybe osm and osm-wiki accounts should be the same?
>
> I have recent reports from one mapper sending me messages through OSM
> messaging
> that he had trouble setting up a wiki account and commenting on my talk
> page so
> clearly there is some confusion about the accounts and by my estimate only
> a tiny
> minority of mappers could ever have any use for separate mapping and wiki
> accounts.
>
> Richard
>
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