On Saturday 09 May 2015, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Yes, as far as I can see many people have tried to influence Xxzme's
behaviour over the last half year and none have succeeded; as things
are my impression is we have a choice of accepting them like they are
or asking them to leave. Yes it would
On 09.05.2015 10:08, Christoph Hormann wrote:
The problem is not exclusively Xxzme's attitude but also the combination
with the dominance of his/her/their edits due to the large amount of
energy and time spent.
I fully agree with that. Xxzme is not the first wiki user who has tried
to push
The wiki's decreasing level of edit energy, combined with it's
increasing reach is a problem.
Wiki text now appears directly in dozens of automated editing and QA tools.
With JOSM style presets, there's a filter between activity on the wiki
and what gets wider coverage.
With iD style automatic
There's another problem page at OpenStreetMap is a social activity.
Sigh. Lots of good cleanup edits. Lots of blundering elephant edits.
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On 9/05/2015 7:57 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
On 05/08/2015 08:00 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
There's another problem page at OpenStreetMap is a social activity.
Sigh. Lots of good cleanup edits. Lots of blundering elephant edits.
Yes, it doesn't feel good to point fingers at individuals but
If you look at the edit history, there's evidence of more than one user ID
showing a supporting pattern of edits. This too is concerning.
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The irony is a non-social editor creating a page about OpenStreetMap is a
social activity.
At this point it's an edit war, one that user Xxzme seems to
This community would loose possibly valuable contributions from him if
this were to occur.
But at the same time, other wiki editors are leaving because of their
stressful time in the wiki (I know at least two... it's not an
exaggeration).
A better outcome would be a more conciliatory
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
I think that interacting with so many members of the community on such a
scale as Xxzme does is at least *difficult* and prone to more friction
if all you're willing to give away is a user name. It's harder to be
part of
On 8 May 2015 at 23:27, Warin 61sundow...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/05/2015 7:57 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
I appreciate that Xxzme has spent a lot of time trying to make the Wiki
better and I believe they did manage to make improvements, but looking
at the complete picture I would politely
Hi,
On 05/08/2015 08:00 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
There's another problem page at OpenStreetMap is a social activity.
Sigh. Lots of good cleanup edits. Lots of blundering elephant edits.
Yes, it doesn't feel good to point fingers at individuals but I, too,
have the impression that Xxzme's
Hi,
On 05/09/2015 12:27 AM, Warin wrote:
This is compounded by Xxzme, unlike most other contributors to the Wiki,
not caring to share any personal information about them - not their real
name, not where they live or what they like. This is not a condition for
participation on a normal scale,
Warning: The email below is a rant. If you don't want to get stressed, don't
read it.
Like SomeoneElse, I'm not too happy with the state of the wiki right now.
Right now in the wiki, there is an elephant in the room...
He is actively editing the wiki for close to an year, has strong opinions
and
On 07/05/2015 12:03, Simon Poole wrote:
I'm really not sure what this discussion is doing on tagging and have
redirected follow ups to talk (it has in the matter of a few mails
already gone substantially off-topic though).
The page in question is actually a fork of
On 2015-05-07 14:58, Richard Z. wrote:
Do we really need
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=POI:Loblawsredirect=no
Please no. That should be discouraged.
One issue that I have -
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
displays only the changes for the
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 12:49:40PM +0100, SomeoneElse wrote:
This page is an excellent example of what can go wrong with the OSM wiki.
Yet another example why the wiki needs some love.
If random edits like this are allowed to continue*** it'll devalue the
wiki even more as a resource. I'm
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