It is not only his language ability that he overestimates. His Mediawiki programming has a cargo cult flavour and he has a fetish for links going to the “right” place (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Iotw_text/2017-43&diff=1516878&oldid=1516754 being a typical recent example) that he takes as far as special cases in templates just to satisfy it, this was the root of the current calendar argument.
-- Andrew ________________________________ From: Richard <ricoz....@gmail.com> Sent: 30 October 2017 13:10:49 To: Tobias Knerr Cc: talk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23 On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:13:14AM +0100, Tobias Knerr wrote: > On 28.10.2017 12:06, Andrew Hain wrote: > > His behaviour over the past years makes him a contributor of net > > negative value. > > I have to disagree here. He's probably the single most active wiki > contributor, and is also performing a lot of useful maintenance work > that no one else would bother doing. Agree. At the same time, exactly as he is a respected and experienced contributor the cost of every single missstep is disproportionately higher than if "gaer3jfkk4ej555_I_want_to_fuck_OSM" does it. An exceptionally high self esteem regarding foreign language skills does not help either. ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/escada/diary/40120 ) > This does not mean that he should be exempt from the rules, of course. > To the contrary: What I would hope for is consistent enforcement of the > rules, with gradually increasing penalties. Jumping straight from spotty > enforcement to a permanent ban, though, seems wasteful and needlessly cruel. Rules can help - if they can be enforced by simple technical means. For some contributors lets say a limit like * 2 edits to a single page within 14 days * 5 edits to talk pages per 7 days * 1 revert per 14 days Nothing personal but very few people here have the time to follow dozens of changesets so this would help a lot. Maybe for some contributors a personal blacklist banning every edit with the word "you" in every language and declination can help. Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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