> Anyway, it's sad to see that WeeklyOSM has abandoned all attempt at
>impartiality
Impartiality is an ongoing issue for any journalistic enterprise. WeeklyOSM has
at times done better, and done worse. I think WeeklyOSM is a really valuable
service, and I hope the editors there are open to our help to become a better
service for the whole OSM community.
Let's look at this example, and see if we can come up with something better.
Compare the original version...
> Yuri Astrakhan re-started the discussion on the Talk mailing list about the
> tool to do mechanical edits (it is now called Sophox). Yuri is perceived by
> many as unreasonable as before and tries to ignore all the unwritten rules in
> OSM.
and this version
> Yuri Astrakhan re-started the discussion on the Talk mailing list about the
>tool to do mechanical edits (it is now called Sophox). Yuri is as unreasonable
>as before and tries to ignore all the unwritten rules in OSM.
This is worse, but I posit not much worse. While the published version does
semantically avoid WeeklyOSM making this judgement, the meaning comes through
much the same.
Now try this version...
> Yuri Astrakhan re-started the discussion on the Talk mailing list about the
>tool to do mechanical edits (it is now called Sophox). The discussion
>continues to be quite contentious.
This is better. It gets the same substantial information across, but does not
call out judgement on an individual, and allows the reader to enter the
discussion with an open mind.
-Mikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
On Friday, November 17, 2017, 6:52:25 AM EST, Rafael Avila Coya
<ravilac...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi:
I've read the majority of the posts of the "New OSM Quick-Fix service"
thread in OSM-talk, and I don't see any partiality in the post of the
WeeklyOSM. In fact, I think they have been very polite and diplomatic.
Cheers,
Rafael.
On 17/11/17 11:34, Steve Doerr wrote:
> On 17/11/2017 08:20, weeklyteam wrote:
>> Yuri Astrakhanre-started
>> <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-November/079504.html>the
>> discussion on the Talk mailing list about the tool to do mechanical edits
>> (it is now called/Sophox/). Yuri is perceived by many as unreasonable as
>> before and tries to ignore all the unwritten rules in OSM.
>
>
> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man."
> -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
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>
> Anyway, it's sad to see that WeeklyOSM has abandoned all attempt at
> impartiality.
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