Description of its purpose and which open mapping groups it will serve
Subcategory for the Russian local community to discuss topics specific to mapping in Russia. It should replace the currently used forum sub-section found at users: Russia / OpenStreetMap Forum
Hey, I am another moderator of the Russia subforum. I should mention that our community won’t participate in two forums at once. It’s just when the forum is closed, I’d like to have the entire history and everything here, just as it was. So the transition is seamless.
While we wait for the proposed moderators to comment here they are OK with the role, it would be great if you could edit the initial message adding their usernames in these forums and a brief description on why each moderator was proposed. This is asked as part of the process to provide transparency and allow a community conversation to happen here.
Additionally, if you can find a 3rd moderator it would be great to make sure there is enough people checking on the category.
Question about the guidelines, do you intend to use them on top of the existing OSM Etiquette Guidelines that are used elsewhere in these forums? If so, once the category is created you will be able to c&p them into the pinned topic describing the category.
Also my question was about if you want to use those “in addition” to the existing OSM Etiquette guidelines (that might be worth translating in Russian for the wiki?).
@freeExec just checking in case you were able to find a third person to help with moderation, this is highly encouraged to allow a good distribution of the responsibilities.
If the problem is only with the third moderator, then I propose my candidacy. I’m not holding on to the position, if another candidate appears, which will be supported by the majority of the Russian community, then you can instead of me.
Five days have passed for the community discussion so now a voting poll is opened for another five days (plus weekend days) to validate the final list.
The list will be validated if it gets at least 80% of yes votes. Note that votes (who voted what) are public to help identify any abuses.
Напомню, что Zverik известен тем, что при голосовании на форуме набрал наибольшее количество голосов против, а после этого забанил участников задним числов, то есть за то, что не входило в период его компетенций.
Меня спрашивают про эти выборы.
Это не выборы, а шантаж. Или берите, что есть, или не будет вам российского раздела.
Может лучше отложить голосование и набрать еще кандидатов?
Ну и со сменяемостью наблюдаются основательные проблемы.
В ходе его деятельности на посту модератора к нему было много претензий о предвзятости модерирования, преследования за критику приложения MAPS.ME, одним из разработчиков которого он являлся.
