Thx Mark, makes sense. Data items are wiki pages too, and we can protect them the same way. Still, I think it's a moot point -- at least initially preset data will go via GitHub as regular pull requests.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 05:34 Mark Wagner <mark+...@carnildo.com> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 03:17:27 -0400 > Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 2:10 AM Mateusz Konieczny > > <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: > > > > > * easy to edit by community > > > > > > I am dubious whatever "anybody can > > > edit any preset stored as wikidata > > > items" will be considered as benefit > > > > > > > One could also doubt that allowing direct OSM and Wikipedia edits by > > anyone would be considered as a benefit... But it does, doesn't it? > > Worst case scenario: someone breaks a preset - with so many eyes on > > them (exposed via wiki pages, used by all editors, monitored via > > numerous tools, cross-checked by validation queries, etc etc etc), it > > will be fixed within minutes. > > Wikipedia is a good comparison, but not in the way you intended it. > > Wikipedia has special permissions for changing widely-used > templates or the website interface itself: the "template editor" and > "interface administrator" permissions. An ordinary editor can only > mess up one article at a time, while a template editor can mess up a > half-million articles in a single go, and an interface administrator > can vandalize every page on Wikipedia at once. > > If someone breaks the preset for something like "building=yes", then > sure, it'll be spotted and fixed in a matter of minutes. But in the > meantime, there'll be hundreds of mis-tagged buildings, many of them in > places that nobody will review for years. > > -- > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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