<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Replacing the deprecated `wikipedia:en` tags with newer `wikipedia` tags sounds like a great idea. As mentioned on Slack, I agree that if you can add `wikidata` tags at the same time, even better.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your work on this!<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Bryan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 26, 2019, at 7:51 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <<a href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com" class="">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">Old style wikipedia link is one where language is stored in key, not in value.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">For example "wikipedia:en=Kansas" is an old style link, while "wikipedia=en:Kansas"<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">is a form that is currently standard.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">Many old-style Wikipedia links remain and updating them to new style manually is<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">boring, tedious and some mistakes may appear during this.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">Some OSM elements have old-style Wikipedia link without new tag what means that this data<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">is harder to process for editors and data consumers.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">Also, remaining old-style Wikipedia tags confuse mappers, especially less experienced.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">Therefore I propose to run an automatic edit that will replace old-style Wikipedia links<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">with current style of Wikipedia links.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not make the edit without a clear<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">support so please comment if you think that it is a good idea and if you think that it should not be done.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" class="">Plan is as follows:<br class=""></div><div style="16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">I will take full responsibility for all edits and if anything goes wrong I will fix it.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" class="">Editing is limited to objects with old-style Wikipedia tags is not conflicting with existing wikipedia=* <br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">or wikidata=* tag or other old-style wikipedia tags.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" class="">Links detected as invalid (leading to disambigs, articles about humans, animals, plants, events etc) <br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">are also skipped<br class=""></div><div style="16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" class="">Each changeset contains a single element or group of close elements to avoid edits spanning <br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">across large areas (it is impossible in cases where edited object itself spans very large area)<br class=""></div><div style="16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" class="">After every changeset bot sleeps for one minute.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">This is proposed as reoccurring edit and may be made as soon as new old-style wikipedia links appear.<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">documentation page on OSM Wiki is at <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/elimination_of_old-style_Wikipedia_links_in_USA" class="">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/elimination_of_old-style_Wikipedia_links_in_USA</a><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">I have experience with automatic edits. exactly the same task was run in Poland to remove<br class=""></div><div style="16px" text-align="left" class="">more than 6000 old-style Wikipedia links what was completed without any issues.<br class=""></div> </div>
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