From 4ee0467d6c405ee2cd850af50134f9a55797e311 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pieter Vander Vennet Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:17:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Docs: add no anonymous edits allowed --- Docs/Reasonings/NoAnonymousContributions.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Docs/Reasonings/NoAnonymousContributions.md b/Docs/Reasonings/NoAnonymousContributions.md index 4a79c4182..49209fc41 100644 --- a/Docs/Reasonings/NoAnonymousContributions.md +++ b/Docs/Reasonings/NoAnonymousContributions.md @@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ _Not_ having a to write down a name or to log in makes the barrier to experiment We also had [one spam-campaign](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Trziste_prace). It would have become practically impossible to clean up this mess if this would have happened with anonymous accounts, whereas the datateam could simply revert all changes by those users now. +# Editing programs are not allowed to have anonymous contributions + +Bing map builder had a single user account for all changes - until they got blocked. The foundation [asked them](https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2022-06#MapBuilder_implementation_proposal) to address some grievances with anonymous contributions. [Please read the wiki for more details](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_builder) + +wheelmap.org gets an exception to this, because they only modify a single tag (and can thus not do a lot of damage) and are _old_ - they started in 2010, when OSM was 5 years old and unusable anyway. + # To wrap it up Anonymous accounts would indeed allow more contributions, but would shift the work to the already existing community instead of growing it.