On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Denny Vrandečić vrandecic@gmail.com wrote:
So instead better to limit your freedom to express yourself in the first place.
I'd take the bot. At least in the history of the article it is recorded that it was tried to enter 123.45 for a population, and we can later figure out what was happening.
Why not wait and see if this is really a problem? I wonder how many such mistakes will ever be entered, besides "jokes" and vandalism. And the latter is easier to catch if we don't require the pranksters to use data that sounds correct. Do we have any indication that contributors are being supported by a system that doesn't let them enter negative numbers for populations?
We will start with no constraints. I will not have the team spent time on this without us even knowing how much of an issue it is going to be and what kinds of constraints we need in the software if any.
Cheers Lydia