Simon + lost mappers task force: Thank you so much for this important work.
(and for being patient when I came in late and asked all those questions ;) On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > > As some may remember from mid-February 2012 to essentially up to the > redaction bot started running, the LWG undertook to get in contact with > largest remaining non-responders that hadn't accepted the new > contributor terms. > > We worked through two lists of roughly 1000 contributors each. The first > list containing (nearly) all non-responders that had created at least > 100 highways, the smallest being around place 20'000 in overall > contributor ranking. The second list expanded the coverage down to the > mark of 40 created highways (which corresponded roughly to rank 30'000). > For both lists we had access to the e-mail address configured in the > mappers profile, the data was made available under a confidentiality > agreement and will now be destroyed. > > A further note: by February all of the accounts in the list had had at > least two e-mails asking them to agree sent to the address configured in > the account, the 2nd mail in their local language for the overwhelming > majority of all mappers. > > From an original 1014 contributors in the first group a total of 495 > agreed, resulting in a nearly 50% success rate. Of the 2nd group of 959, > 362 agreed, giving a success rate of 38%. There was naturally some > acceptances in both groups that weren't directly attributable to our > efforts, but the residual acceptance rate before we started was very > near zero and continued to be so after April the 1st up to a final > effort just before the bot ran. > > I would like to thank everybody that helped in carrying this out, in > some cases going to extremes to get hold of the contributors in question. > > Simon > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
