I realise that this particular incident was an accident, however can I suggest that we add something to be able to check up on a user so as to get an idea about them and the intentions.
General information- this information is to judge how trusted a contributor is and if their contributions should be checked: 1) When did they register? 2) When did they do their first edit? 3) On how many distinct days have they made edits? 4) How many compliments have been made about their work by other users? 5) How many complaints have been made about their work by other users? Then an indication of activity... How about a table summarising edits over the past 10 weeks and the last 10 days: 1) How many ways added? 2) How many ways modified/split/combined? 3) How many ways deleted? Finally a list of recent textual changes (which might be a likely target for vandalism); the latest changes to visible textual fields, ie name, ref. for example: High Street (deleted) French Street (added) John Street -> Burt Street (change) A14 -> blar blar blar (change) Etc Could we also add a monitor to the minutely update automatically for worrying stuff? What is worrying can be added to over time, howver we could start by looking for large changes by new users, the occurrence of 'high risk' text field values etc. Of course it is also be useful to monitor all changes in an area as one can with our 'OSM Mapper'product: (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Mapper). Using this product I have spotted a few new good local mappers appearing in my area and been able to check their initial work and help them with tagging etc. It might be good to be able to give them recognition for their work (some 'gold star' or whatever) which might then reassure other users if they start working in a different part of the world. I could also flag up a concern first privately and then possibly publically if their work was not good. Regards, Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Hughes > Sent: 11 September 2008 15:34 > To: Frederik Ramm > Cc: osm Talk; Дмитрий Оленёв > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Need help! > > Frederik Ramm wrote: > > >>>> * : See http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html > > > >>> Heh. Dmitry Oleynov is the most destructive mapper. For two days (8-9 > >>> of Sept) he has removed 75139 nodes! But created only 888. > >> > >> His actions do not appear to be malicious though - in fact he emailed > >> Steve on Tuesday after he realised what he had done asking for help to > >> revert the changes. > >> > >> That got passed on to me, but I don't any way of reverting stuff, so I > >> suggested last night that he come here and ask for help. > > > > I have a script which I could use to > > > > 1. create a list of nodes and ways edited by a certain user in a certain > > time frame, planet-wide > > > > 2. load the history of all these objects from the current database > > > > 3. for each object that has not been touched by someone else since, > > revert it to the state it was before the user touched it. > > > > If you want me to do that for changes by Dmitry (and if I may assume > > that he is happy with this) then just give me a time frame and the > > username. > > > > This procedure has two disadvantages: 1. it will also remove "good" > > changes by that user in that time frame, and 2. it will NOT touch > > anything modified by someone else - this means that wherever people have > > attempted to manually repair the damage, things will remain in the > > "manually repaired" state and not be reverted. > > Dmitry - are you happy for Frederik to do the above to revert your edits? > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.compton.nu/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
