It seems to me that the biggest problem is often spotting that vandalism has taken place soon enough.
Elsewhere people have talked about setting up a "vandalism@" alternative to the talk list. It would be useful to see recent edits by "known vandals" (perhaps automatically mailed to the list with a unique subject header including the changeset ID) allowing people to "claim" a changeset, saying either "I'll revert it" or "I know that's wrong but I don't have time/ability to revert it now". The sooner an incorrect changeset is seen, the more chance there is of a clean revert without the need for manual intervention. The GB_revert_request_log in the wiki is a nice idea, but editing a wiki table is a pain, and people are just getting on with reverting RR8's incorrect edits local to them rather than keeping the table up to date as they go. The OSM "history" tab unfortunately shows "edits in a box, which can be quite large" not "edits in the area that you're looking at". ITO's OSM mapper is great, but would be even more so if it were not a couple of days out of date, and if the changeset number of a displayed change was visible earlier (in the Sessions list perhaps?). Determining "who is a vandal" could be contentious of course, but perhaps we could start with "I'm user ABC from area DEF, and I've looking at the edits made by user GHI and they don't look correct". After a couple of citations (as has happened on the talk list with liam123 and RR8) it would make sense to have details of all their changesets posted to a "vandalism@" list. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
