<big> Event </big> Functionality dropped

[TheFive]

Hi Thomas,

in the Wiki Calendar there was a convention to tag some kind of events (SOTM...) as BigEvents. This results in a "bigger" font in the Wiki, to make them more visible, but weeklyOSM used this flag to filter events more specific. So standard "Mapping Stammtische" are shown 21 days from current date and big events are shown 6 month (or something like that) from current date.

Do you plan to get this kind of functionality ?

Otherwise i have to add a functionality that this can be marked in OSMBC, but than it is done only by weekly Editors and not by the community and the information is restricted to weeklyOSM.

(i do not remember, what exact the syntax in the wiki was).

An alternative could be something like "interest": Regional, Continental, World.

Christoph

[thomersch]

We had a related discussion a while ago: https://github.com/thomersch/openstreetmap-calendar/issues/7#issuecomment-567081817 I ignored it for a while since there weren't too many events, but probably we got to pick this up again.

On the one hand I think events could be classified easily like you mentioned (regional, national, ...), on the other hand I think there is always a burden we put on the event creator and I don't want to make event creator tick dozens of boxes. weeklyOSM staff could probably easily decide what is relevant and what isn't, but we would put even more work on the team.

Most of the events fall in the category "regional", so a default could probably cover most cases.

I currently lean toward the following categories: regional, interregional, international. Though, I am not absolutely sure about the wording.

[TheFive]

I assume to work with the regional default is a good start. From my understanding everyone with an osm account is allowed to change an event, and - if he feel that it is necessary - to update the interest category. (at the end even the weeklyOSM Auditors, if they would like to have the SOTM in the calendar).

BTW: do you have - plan to have, an audit trail (may be internally). I think it is a good OSM culture that everyone can do everything, but this is logged for transparency.

[thomersch]

From my understanding everyone with an osm account is allowed to change an event, and - if he feel that it is necessary - to update the interest category.

Exactly. There is no ownership model, everyone can edit everything.

BTW: do you have - plan to have, an audit trail (may be internally).

There is an internal change log. Also, on a event page all the people that have edited are listed:

[TheFive]

Thanks for explanation