Russ Nelson wrote: > Okay, taking you somewhat more seriously now, the ideology that > Ted is driving is that everything in OSM should be editable by > everyone,
This part sounds like the very core of the wiki idea, and not at all extremist. > and nobody has any better edits to make than anyone else, and > everybody gets an equal vote, and if you change something and I > change it back, well, those are just two votes and who are you > to override me or me override you, and when somebody moves a way > five miles long over by one hundred feet and screws up hundreds > of roads, well, that was just an edit, and how can an edit be > wrong? I don't think anybody suggested this. > I exaggerate to make a point, obviously. It's obvious that you do, but it's not obvious what your point is. > As far as I can see, there is no reputation mechanism whereby > experienced editors stand out from the noob editors, and the > latter are reluctant to change the former's edits. And by > definition if I don't know about it, it doesn't exist. This sounds pretty much like somebody who grew up with Britannica and learned about Wikipedia yesterday. Welcome to the Internet! > In hindsight, I think that I proposed "immutable=yes" as a > primitive and binary reputation mechanism. If anybody has any > better ideas, I'd love to hear them. Here's an idea: Let's make OpenStreetMap the free wiki world map. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk