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Docs: add no anonymous edits allowed

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Pieter Vander Vennet 2024-09-30 16:17:01 +02:00
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@ -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. 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 # 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. Anonymous accounts would indeed allow more contributions, but would shift the work to the already existing community instead of growing it.