Lester, Good luck with your project. For a big list of UK locations you might like to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations which still includes thousands of redlinks.
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. Rod -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lester Caine Sent: 12 September 2015 21:20 To: UK Wikimedia mailing 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 adding links from places in wikipedia to their entry in OSM. For places read county/borough/city/town/village/hamlet/suburb, the last four of which Facebook lump under 'city' and make a complete mess of things. 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 to use the correct name for the period the railway existed, but there was no page for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Sub_Edge which I've created by cribbing other local villages. My crib sheet of names lists 'Weston Subedge' as taken from the ONS list but I'm waiting on some feed back from the Parish Clerk as to the 'official' spelling nowadays. I've extended https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston-sub-Edge to include it's information box. There is room for more work and additional links to other material, but basically ... am I on the right line. I'm planning to spiral out, and have a small list of missing village and hamlets to add to wikipedia and I'm cross checking everything against my other lists. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.6125 / Virus Database: 4419/10628 - Release Date: 09/12/15 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
