Vandalism report

[Mammi71]

@TurboProject

It’s shame that OSM team allows such actions

No one on the OSM team “allows” vandalism. A lot of people are working intensively and with great personal effort to curb and revert this unspeakable vandalism.
Shame on you for this disrespectful comment.

@TurboProject

Real solution is restore old version of Russian map before date of start Ukrainian vandalism.

The only real solution is to immediately stop the real existing vandalism of Russian soldiers and officers on the ground in Ukraine and restore Ukraine to the state before the date of the start of the Russian war of aggression.

Nobody has the right to engage in vandalism - neither in OSM nor in real life!

[TurboProject]

I sure that OSM team directly assist this vandalism act by their inaction. Without this assistance it is impossible.

In such case any normal administrator should restore good version of data and block all modifications before resolve security problem. It’s not simple vandalism. So many modifications can create only by automatic bot. This is security problem of OSM. The project is under bot attack.

Why do you write me about war? OSM is NOT military project. Any war-related comment violated rules of the service. I’m using OSM for my bike routes.

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

@Mammi71

The only real solution is to immediately stop the real existing vandalism of Russian soldiers and officers on the ground in Ukraine and restore Ukraine to the state before the date of the start of the Russian war of aggression.

This is not a valid justification to damage OpenStreetMap data. And steps will be taken (and are being taken) to block this attack and repair effects.

@TurboProject

Without this assistance it is impossible.

This is false.

@TurboProject

I sure that OSM team directly assist this vandalism act by their inaction.

Just single mapper in fixed/reverted over 2 650 794 objects in Russia (NorthCrab), see OSMstats - Statistics of the free wiki world map

[Fizzie41]

@Mateusz_Konieczny

Just single mapper in fixed/reverted over 2 650 794 objects in Russia

& in addition to the reverts (~ 3 million & climbing) over 10000 user accounts have also been blocked.

@TurboProject

OSM team allows such actions

No, they certainly don’t!

[Firefishy]

@TurboProject please read this good summary OpenStreetMap атакуют in addition the Operations Team have also locked edits from open proxies and tor.

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

@avinet_ua

your country did afwul things and will pay for that and you, personally, too

Please immediately cease this. Threats like this are not acceptable here.

And this is entirely offtopic in this thread.

I understand that you have valid reasons to be extremely angry at Russian government and whoever supports it.

But it does not justify offtopic threats on OpenStreetMap forum and vandalism in OpenStreetMap. Also, being against vandalizing map data in Russia does not make you supporter of Putin.

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

@TurboProject

This project team does not understand that they can be sued not in Moscow, but in New York, so I have to warn that I am considering a lawsuit in US jurisdiction. Undoubtedly, large monetary compensation should be paid to the Russian community in the USA.

Not sure what is our policy on legal threats (Wikimedia has standing policy to ban anyone making them and talk only to lawyers until these is fully withdrawn).

But please immediately cease this. If you are serious, please consult with of lawyer who will explain to you how you are wrong and why it will go nowhere.

For start you just claimed that it state-level security attack. Being victim of one is pretty strong defense. To say nothing about extreme levels of free speech in USA.

What is moot anyway given that our reaction is to revert all spotted vandalism, delete/block thousands of accounts and introduce technical measures to make repeat of that harder (yes, more than was enabled would be nice). And while you can found troll or two supporting this vandalism, overwhelming reaction is negative and with various attempts so they will be undone. And complaints are that not enough is done to prevent repeat.

[Mateusz_Konieczny]

Closed temporarily due to discussion rapidly deteriorating.

To other people with access to this tools: feel free to reopen in few hours.

EDIT: OpenStreetMap forum is not a place to make this kind of threats that were made here. Please drop that lines of discussion.