[OSM-talk] Bot edits on the OSM wiki

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

On 2/25/19 10:37 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> There are several ethical concerns that motivate me here - the one that
> is easiest to understand is probably that allowing bots would create a
> two class system within the OSM community on the wiki - those who are
> able to develop and run bots would form a ruling class while the rest
> would be subject to this rule whether they agree with it or not. [..]

If that is an essential concern for you, I have bad news about the 
Openstreetmap database...

Robots are not sovereign entities: they are puppets to humans and 
therefore bound to human rules, to which supplementary restrictions are 
added to compensate for their large-scale effect. Therefore, the authors 
of automation have greater power to realize their vision - but they 
remain under political control... Works pretty fine for our map, doesn't 
it ?