I’m looking at the diary entries once a day now. All too often there is spam content. What can we do about this? Maybe a vote button and if 3 people mark an entry as spam, it is removed from view and verified by an admin?
Jo
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I’m looking at the diary entries once a day now. All too often there is spam content. What can we do about this? Maybe a vote button and if 3 people mark an entry as spam, it is removed from view and verified by an admin?
Jo
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تعليق من Richard في 25 سبتمبر 2017 في 15:08
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/1576
تعليق من Andy Allan في 26 سبتمبر 2017 في 09:34
Yes, there’s work in progress to allow users to flag diary entries (and other things, like changeset comments) for moderators and admins to look at.
I’ll just say here that there’s very few people actually writing code to improve the website - surprisingly few, given the thousands of people who use the website and the API each day, and the hundreds of developers in the OSM ecosystem. So if anyone can help us out, help is definitely appreciated!
تعليق من Polyglot في 26 سبتمبر 2017 في 09:39
I’m not much of a programmer. Next summer is still rather far away, but if it’s possible to define what needs to be done, maybe we can formulate it as a GSoC task for 2018?
Or maybe it’s something for the EWG to tackle?
Jo
تعليق من Andy Allan في 26 سبتمبر 2017 في 10:02
This particular thing actually was a previous GSoC task, but one that hasn’t yet been polished off ready to be merged. But I’m happy to slowly work away at reviewing and improving it, albeit a long, long time after the GSoC student and mentor involved have moved on to other things.
GSoC isn’t the best solution when the problem is a lack of regular contributors. We can easily end up with a big feature and nobody to merge it or maintain it. We need some people who are willing to help (and that might involve learning to code, many developers like me are self-taught) with all the routine tasks, big and small, that would improve OSM for everyone.
If EWG want to help encourage more contributors then I’m all for that. Making improvements - however small - to the website has a huge impact on OSM since it’s used by literally every single contributor. So I hope that there’s someone who is reading this diary who will realise that they can play their part too. That’s why I mentioned it!