[OSM-talk] Software configuration | Re: iD influencing tagging

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Thx Mark, makes sense. Data items are wiki pages too, and we can protect
them the same way. Still, I think it's a moot point -- at least initially
preset data will go via GitHub as regular pull requests.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 05:34 Mark Wagner <mark+osm at carnildo.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 03:17:27 -0400
> Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:10 AM Mateusz Konieczny
> > <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
> >
> > > * easy to edit by community
> > >
> > > I am dubious whatever "anybody can
> > > edit any preset stored as wikidata
> > > items" will be considered as benefit
> > >
> >
> > One could also doubt that allowing direct OSM and Wikipedia edits by
> > anyone would be considered as a benefit... But it does, doesn't it?
> > Worst case scenario: someone breaks a preset - with so many eyes on
> > them (exposed via wiki pages, used by all editors, monitored via
> > numerous tools, cross-checked by validation queries, etc etc etc), it
> > will be fixed within minutes.
>
> Wikipedia is a good comparison, but not in the way you intended it.
>
> Wikipedia has special permissions for changing widely-used
> templates or the website interface itself: the "template editor" and
> "interface administrator" permissions.  An ordinary editor can only
> mess up one article at a time, while a template editor can mess up a
> half-million articles in a single go, and an interface administrator
> can vandalize every page on Wikipedia at once.
>
> If someone breaks the preset for something like "building=yes", then
> sure, it'll be spotted and fixed in a matter of minutes.  But in the
> meantime, there'll be hundreds of mis-tagged buildings, many of them in
> places that nobody will review for years.
>
> --
> Mark
>
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