Yeah, that was one of the options in the vote but it wasn’t very popular. I wouldn’t have a problem with that personally but I’m a little afraid that a lot of people would see that as a mistake and keep adding the name=*. Is this approach used anywhere in the world?

وعليك السلام, يا نزال. خريطة الشارع المفتوحة هي خريطة العالم التي تتكون من بيانات حرّة والتي يمكن كل أحد تعديلها, مثل ويكيبيديا تقريبا

Hi, can you give an example of such a revert?

@Warin61:
> Land mines in north western Africa for instance. Dangerous suburbs in South America.

The obvious difference here is that while the dangerousness of a city quarter if subjective, the fact that an area is marked as a minefield is quite objective. The mapper wouldn’t be speculating whether there are in fact any mines or how densely they are planted - if there’s a red skull-and-crossbones sign saying “DANGER - MINES”, I see no reason why it shouldn’t be mapped. My main problem with mapping minefields is that I usually only see one side of it and don’t go around the whole area to survey its extent and shape. Currently, I’m not aware of a way of saying “there’s a minefield to the left of this road”. How about having a side-aware way (like cliff or retaining wall) and treat is as an unclosed polygon? Sure, it would appear broken and it wouldn’t be very useful for any automated processing but if somebody needed the data and went looking for it, at least there would be something.

Great! You can start translating the wiki: osm.wiki/Wiki_Translation.

Universally sites prevent spam by preventing anonymous posts
Next, common practice to restrict spam is to give new users restricted rights + place their posts into moderation (meaning all new-user posts are hidden & supervised by humans before release to the public)

Hi alexkemp,
Are CAPTCHAs not effective any more? It strikes me as odd that you never mention them when you’re writing about preventing spam. (Pardon my ignorance, I’m a complete layman when it comes to web administration.)

BTW, I find your diary posts highly interesting, keep up the good work!