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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 25, 2023, 22:00 by dieterdreist@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><blockquote><div>On 25 Feb 2023, at 20:13, Mateusz Konieczny via talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div>There is no point in manual drudgery here, with values clearly<br></div><div>replaceable by better matches.<br></div><div><br></div><div>This values here do NOT require manual overview. If this cases will<br></div><div>turn out to be an useful signal of invalid editing than I will remain<br></div><div>reviewing nearby areas where bot edited.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>forgot to say I applaud to this initiative, thank you for tackling this and documenting the process. I agree that there are many cases that can be fixed automatically, and your list shows good examples, but of course we must be very careful to not iron everything flat when there might be subtle differences. This is why it is important to have many eyes on such bot edits and document the details.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">BTW, if someone would prepare similar list for some key <br></div><div dir="auto">(replacements of value A by value B within the same key, without <br></div><div dir="auto">any additional checks/replacements/conditions,<br></div><div dir="auto">with explanations why such replacements are obviously useful), <br></div><div dir="auto">AND they confirmed that this tags are not very good at indicating places<br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">where intensive cleanup/reverts are needed<br></div><div dir="auto">AND list would be in general reasonably reviewed<br></div><div dir="auto">AND publish bot proposal on this mailing list, like this one<br></div></div><div dir="auto">then I can run such edit.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Preparing it is time-consuming, running bot itself is easy.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(lets say that offer is active for the next 30 days so noone will try this in say 6 years<br></div><div dir="auto">from now, may be revoked earlier if people will try to post really badly prepared lists)<br></div> </body>
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