Frederik wrote: > I think that a discussion on the mailing list reaches more people than a > proposal on the Wiki, so I don't see why the latter should be preferred > ;-)
The wiki workflow includes the talk list several time, for the rfc and for the start of voting, so the wiki process includes all users, the ones from the wiki and the ones on the mailing list. So you are surely wrong here. This could be extended by taking a field into the proposal template with the links to the talk archive on rfc and voting start. On the other hand the "mailing list agreement" (which did not exist in this case) usually does not reach the wiki readers. At least a link to the mailing list archive is needed on the tag's talk page *befor* any edits to the tag page are performed. The wiki has a great advantage in comparison with the mailing lists: You only watch the topics you are interested in, what is very helpful if you don't spend your fulltime job with OSM. ;-) > Granted: talk-de is not the place to discuss stuff that is > internationally relevant, even if the .de community makes > 40% of all > edits. But if ever people on talk should agree on something I don't > think it is required to make a Wiki proposal as well. You can think so, but surely the wiki proposal process was not invented and established to be ignored by others. I know that many users "give a dam about votings", but I think this will only provoke edit wars. In case of changing the rules for the usage of a well established tag, it will not only cause edit wars in the wiki, but also in the map! Mikel convinced me to take time and discuss this on the list, I hope we can convince "mailinglist-only users" to do the same and drop a line in the wiki befor doing "important edits" from time to time - Why not post the link to the mailing list archive?! Regards Lulu-Ann -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
