Hi, Nick Barnes wrote: > Is it just me who thinks that having a wiki which is open to everybody > and doesn't have any controls over who can do what is utterly ludicrous?
No, millions of Wikipedia contributors think it is a good thing (and they even allow edits from people without an account) ;-) > The only reason we found out about Liam123 was because somebody said > "This doesn't look right to me". How do we know there isn't another user > who's messing about with things somewhere else? We don't. > To my mind, nobody ought to be able to edit live map data unless: > 1 - They have uploaded n tracks, > 2 - They have had m edits approved by a moderator > 3 - They are vouched for by somebody who has made many many edits A rather draconian way of reducing the freedom of contributors. We *do* want to give newcomers the rewarding experience of fixing a bug and seeing it fixed on the map more or less immediately. A moderator approving something is surely the last thing we want (or can handle technically for that matter). Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
