Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-14 Thread Rod Ward
Wikimedia mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ... On 13/09/15 08:22, Rod Ward wrote: > If county level lists can be created from the list, I would offer to > create articles (or more likely redirects) for all the tiny hamlets > etc left as red links for the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 13/09/15 17:14, Charles Matthews wrote: > Now if all of the information in the right hand box on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Sub_Edge was populated from the > wikidata entry, and the evolution of things like 'population' and other > local variable data was also stored

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Charles Matthews
On 13 September 2015 at 14:59, Lester Caine wrote: > > > Now if all of the information in the right hand box on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Sub_Edge was populated from the > wikidata entry, and the evolution of things like 'population' and other > local variable data was also stored in

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 12/09/15 21:19, Lester Caine wrote: > I've modified > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Subedge_railway_station to use the > correct name for the period the railway existed OK so how come it's been switched back to the wrong name again? No emails which were requested ... no comments other t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 13/09/15 13:18, Gordon Joly wrote: > On 12/09/15 21:19, Lester Caine wrote: >> > Plan off attack is to make sure all the places locally exist in >> > wikipedia and I sort of got off to a good start, but hit a problem with >> > miss matched names and missing entries. I've modified >> > https://en

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Gordon Joly
On 12/09/15 21:19, Lester Caine wrote: > Plan off attack is to make sure all the places locally exist in > wikipedia and I sort of got off to a good start, but hit a problem with > miss matched names and missing entries. I've modified > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Subedge_railway_station t

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Lester Caine
On 13/09/15 08:22, Rod Ward wrote: > If county level lists can be created from the list, I would offer to > create articles (or more likely redirects) for all the tiny hamlets etc > left as red links for the county of Somerset. I wonder of others > (perhaps via county wikiprojects) would do those f

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-13 Thread Rod Ward
From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Fæ Sent: 13 September 2015 04:32 To: UK Wikimedia mailing list Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ... On 12 Sep 2015 10:09 pm, "Rod Ward" ... > I have asked

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-12 Thread
On 12 Sep 2015 10:09 pm, "Rod Ward" ... > I have asked whether it is possible to extract all of the locations in a county from this list, but, to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever worked out a way to do this. ... This can be done. On Conmons I have used the Ordnance Survey data set to retu

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-12 Thread Rod Ward
list Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ... I've been going around in circles on software and not been getting any real content created for the last few years, so I've decided to ignore the problems and just get on with material. My starting point is OSM, and I've been add

[Wikimediauk-l] Getting back in ...

2015-09-12 Thread Lester Caine
I've been going around in circles on software and not been getting any real content created for the last few years, so I've decided to ignore the problems and just get on with material. My starting point is OSM, and I've been adding links from places in wikipedia to their entry in OSM. For places r