Hi Harry! I’m XXZME. Goodbye your reputation.
You may know Harry Wood as one of the oldest members of OSM. What you don’t know is that he is terrible admin at wiki and ignores/resists any internationalization changes at wiki started by me AND SUPPORTED/TRANSLATED by other users at wiki.
Who I’m and my role at wiki.openstreetmap.org, mostly recent edits (last 0,5-1 year)
I hardly can explain my edit history even in 10 minutes or in a hours, sorry guys. Here is some points.
In numbers
I truly believe that they are irrelevant, but I must show MY portion of OSM wiki contributions.
I did 7000 edits to wiki.openstreetmap.org in hope that it will ease translation efforts and help begginners.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Statistics states about 1,228,480 “Page edits since OpenStreetMap Wiki was set up”
Internationalization efforts
These pages are short and look unimportant at first. But ask yourself first:
- why do they translated so quickly if they are unnecessary?
- why does anyone wants to create/translate short pages like this? What is idea behind it?
- why do they have no corrections to page in English?
These pages were born in agony of translators at wiki in multiple attempts to rationalize content for beginners at wiki.
Including work started by Cantho 1,5 years ago https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_organisation#Navigation_by_use-cases
I put significant effort to update Beginner’s guide and other newcomers pages
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Beginners%27_guide&action=history
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Contribute_map_data&action=history
including monsters like
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pick_your_data_collection_technique
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Data_collection_technique
Most of the portals at wiki are significantly reworked by me, see their history:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Portals
It took tremendous amount of time and work to me and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Verdy_p to update terrible over-categorization at wiki and sort content for French-only, Ukrainian-only, Russian-only, Japanese-only readers.
I did significant update to Category:Categories and Category:OSM_Community with help of User:Verdy p.
My edits were based on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/PeterIto significant improvements to top-level categories started 3-5 years ago.and unfinished changes by many other users started earlier (it may be unclear based just on edit history, but his edits indeed were slowly improving top-level categories).
Before making changes I reviewed not only their talk pages but edit history of most top-level categories and top pages at OSM Wiki and problems were repeatedly occurring during edits.
You can always check my edit history, but it will take significant time for you to understand everything based just on latest 300-500 edits.
YES I DID thousands of small and incremental edits to wiki. To reduce over-categorization and to reduce/lower amount of work REQUIRED to perform wiki translators/simplify further wiki maintenance.
Harry Wood never had interest in OSM being TRULLY international.
He constantly ignores DIRECT QUESTIONS to his admin role and his inaction.
Harry Wood abuse of human rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights#Freedom_of_speech
I’m simply not able to express myself in any form any more. My proficiency with any language is completely irrelevant because I cannot say a word after Harry Wood ban.
He silenced me AT MY OWN userpage and I’m not able answer to M!dgard and full-full requests from users or respond in reasonable manner. Even if it takes long discussion in broken English!
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Xxzme&diff=prev&oldid=1216981
I have contacted M!dgard and he said he is busy IRL and not able to join me with edits.
Harry Wood assault on my privacy
In addition to his silence to unpleasant questions directed to him he constantly assaults my privacy and left me with no other option but to respond in my diary, revealing my identity.
As the only argument he repeating himself with HIS OWN PAGE about what is “good” or “bad” in OpenStreetMap
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Xxzme&diff=next&oldid=1216972
He ignored fact that his “guide” is in “draft” stage and not really supported by anyone else except him.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Etiquette was explained before https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Etiquette&action=history
his edits https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Code_of_Conduct_(Draft)&action=history
which is just copy&paste of Ubuntu guide.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Etiquette page never REQUIRED a user to reveal HIS PERSONAL INFORMATION.