I decided to conduct an rudimentary analysis on the edits of the current
OSM
US board candidates, similar to something I did last year. When considering
the qualifications of someone on the board which sets direction for the
local chapter, it is certainly useful to their experience as an OSM
contributor in the US.
Past a certain level of experience, the numbers lose value, but I wouldn't
consider someone with only a few edits per year a good choice who would
understand what's required to get the US map up to the level of those in
countries with similar demographics.
To avoid any inadvertent bias, I conducted this analysis blinded, only
substituting in names after it was completed. The analysis was conducted
on the changeset dump from the 29th. To clarify terminology, a change is
a modification of an object which is contained in a changeset.
If the table does not display, it is also at
https://gist.github.com/pnorman/28351121d9bf12b3a219
Name │ First edit │ Changes │ Changesets │ US changes │ US
changesets │ Changes │ Changesets │ Weeks where US edit │
"Average" state[1]
│ │ │ │ │
│ in last year │ in last year │ made in last year │
Martijn van Exel │ 2007-06-10 │ 216635 │ 3485 │ 166989
│ 2545 │ 58763 │ 1179 │ 52 │
Illinois
Andrew Wiseman │ 2011-02-12 │ 82543 │ 1222 │ 5200
│ 198 │ 34643 │ 582 │ 19 │
Cape Verde[2]
Richard Welty │ 2009-04-04 │ 382843 │ 8831 │ 382589
│ 8720 │ 76168 │ 838 │ 45 │
New York
Dale Kunce │ 2013-05-30 │ 63770 │ 201 │ 18432
│ 92 │ 53055 │ 147 │ 13 │
Cape Verde[3]
Alex Barth │ 2012-02-10 │ 82565 │ 1192 │ 33266
│ 633 │ 31436 │ 493 │ 32 │
Middle of Atlantic[4]
Coleman McCormick │ 2009-02-28 │ 408229 │ 5952 │ 356269
│ 5698 │ 106213 │ 959 │ 48 │
East of Bahamas[5]
Ian Dees │ 2007-12-30 │ 6066596 │ 2123 │ 4360026
│ 1888 │ 25172 │ 277 │ 41 │
Wisconsin
Alyssa Wright │ 2013-03-23 │ 27897 │ 159 │ 0
│ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │
Rajasthan, India
Gerald Hasty │ 2011-10-25 │ 894 │ 28 │ 894
│ 26 │ 59 │ 5 │ 1 │ Utah
Robin Tolochko │ 2010-04-04 │ 466 │ 12 │ 26
│ 3 │ 0 │ 0 │ 0 │
Córdoba, Colombia
Eleanor Tutt │ 2013-10-18 │ 6247 │ 83 │ 6247
│ 83 │ 6247 │ 83 │ 9 │
Missouri
Bryce Nesbitt │ 2010-10-05 │ 30580 │ 1081 │ 26428
│ 921 │ 7615 │ 246 │ 45 │
Nevada
Entries with a 0 had zero edits in that category (e.g. zero edits in the
US or zero edits last year)
[1]: In the same sense that Kansas is the "average" state of the US.
[2]: Andrew Wiseman mainly edits in Honduras and Afghanistan
[3]: Dale Kunce mainly edits within Guinea
[4]: Alex Barth has about half their edits overseas and half in D.C.
[5]: Coleman McCormick mainly contributes within Florida
Other tools for looking at a contributor's history are
http://hdyc.neis-one.org/ and http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/
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