On 2018.08.30. 23:20, Kevin Kenny wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:39 AM Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yes, the original harmful edit was made by user "MedwedianPresident" in >> changeset https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61555047 20 days ago. It >> was then reverted by naoliv a day later: >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/61556585. >> >> naoliv also blocked the user: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/2141 > > Many thanks to the hopelessly overloaded DWG for handling this. > > A problem here is that it gives us a tremendous black eye in the > press. I wonder how, moving forward, we can lessen the chances of > this sort of hate speech propagating off the project. Other projects > have found that having a mandatory review and moderation process for > new users is helpful, because the sort of person who leaves this sort > of mess is usually creating a one-time account to do it, rather than > having made earlier sound contributions.
It gives us the same press as some vandals messing with wikipedia - let's not see it as a worse thing than it is. As a sidenote, this was detected and revert in OSM in a day. If data consumers would update the data more frequently, the impact would be much, much smaller (in this specific case, probably nobody would have noticed). > If my experience with other open-source and crowdsourced projects is > any guide, it only takes a incident or two like this for The Powers > That Be in many organizations to start forbidding the use of > open-source material "because there's no quality control and too much > legal risk."-- Rihards _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
