Þann 14.05.2014 08:49, Pieren reit:
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote:
Some types of activities that *could* be covered are
- Teachers requiring their students to edit OSM as part of a course
I hope not. How can we have on one side a (foundation) group trying to
reduce barriers for newcomers and on the other side a group increasing
bureaucracy for newcomers and their teachers ?
Quite. I've been mulling over setting together a session that teachers
could use in higher classes in primary school, aimed at introducing the
children to the concept of not being only consumers but also
participants and creators of material online.
An introduction to not only OpenStreetMap but also Wikipedia, Project
Gutenberg and other such open data initiatives.
Requiring these teachers to get each of their students to not only
create a OSM user but also to put a boiler-plate disclaimer on their
user pages as they map the playgrounds or sport fields they attend
mostly, or wastebins near their school, seems an overkill and it looks
like the red tape that is choking the English Wikipedia (new contributor
numbers and engagement is dropping steadily) is edging closer to OSM, to
my personal dismay (I hardly touch the English Wikipedia these days,
having to display signed sheets in triplicate from librarians confirming
the knowledge is real - or that is what it feels like - when my edits
haven't been reverted by disbelieving bots).
The focus needs to be on the problem at hand, which I gather is
companies hiring people to map things using their own methodology
incompatible with current OSM tagging guidelines. Is that correct
understanding?
The focus needs to be on a problem at hand, not on increasing
bureaucracy for everyone acting with a common instructor or goal in
mind.
--Jói
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