Seems fine to me. On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 06:54, Mateusz Konieczny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Old style wikipedia link is one where language is stored in key, not in > value. > > For example "wikipedia:en=Australia" is an old style link, while > "wikipedia=en:Australia" is a form that is currently standard. > > Many old-style Wikipedia links remain and updating them to new style > manually is boring, tedious and some mistakes may appear during this. > > Some OSM elements have old-style Wikipedia link without new tag what > means that this data is harder to process for editors and data > consumers. > > Also, remaining old-style Wikipedia tags confuse mappers, especially > less experienced. > > Therefore I propose to run an automatic edit that will replace > old-style Wikipedia links with current style of Wikipedia links. > > Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not > make the edit without a clear support so please comment if you think > that it is a good idea and if you think that it should not be done. > > Number of affected objects should be relatively small - > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/H5x reports just 200 elements. > > Plan is as follows: > > I will take full responsibility for all edits and if anything goes > wrong I will fix it. > > Editing is limited to objects with old-style Wikipedia tags is not > conflicting with existing wikipedia=* or wikidata=* tag or other > old-style wikipedia tags. > > Links detected as invalid (leading to disambigs, articles about humans, > animals, plants, events etc) are also skipped. > > Each changeset contains a single element or group of close elements to > avoid edits spanning across large areas (it is impossible in cases > where edited object itself spans very large area). > > After every changeset bot sleeps for one minute. > > This is proposed as reoccurring edit and may be made as soon as new > old-style wikipedia links appear. > > documentation page on OSM Wiki is at > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/elimination_of_old-style_Wikipedia_links_in_Australia > > I have experience with automatic edits. exactly the same task was run > in Poland to remove more than 6000 old-style Wikipedia links what was > completed without any issues. > > I recently processed also old-style Wikipedia tags across USA. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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