On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > I was thinking of voting up or down contributions, and yes, this could also > lead to league tables that identify people with consistently problematic > edits; but that would not be because of who they are, but because of what > they do. Maybe I am the only one seeing a difference here but personally I > have absolutely zero problem in saying something like "this person has > consistently made edits that others in the project found sub-standard". This > has nothing to do with hurling insults at anybody.
To continue drawing lessons from Wikipedia, there have been quite a few attempts to build "trust metrics" into Wikipedia, evaluating the likely value of a given change, based on previous rates of reversion of changes made by that editor, and other factors. The change is then displayed in a different colour, accordingly. Research papers have been written, but none of these features have ever made it into the production system. Why? I'm not sure exactly, but I think it basically doesn't offer enough value: what ultimately matters is the content of the change, not who made it. Two thinks that Wikipedia has that OSM lacks, are good visibility of recent changes (just click "view history"), and localised forums (talk page). Although it's possible (if difficult) to get the history of a given object in OSM, I don't know of any easy way to get a sense of the recent history of an area. Undoubtedly there are third party websites, but anything built into openstreetmap.org? And if you do find an issue that you want to discuss, your options are only to email the person privately, or to raise it on the appropriate talk-*@ mailing list, and hope they're listening. Personally, I would have trouble marking many changesets "-1" without doing extensive research. But there are a few where I've queried the author, and in some cases found explanations that weren't obvious at first Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
