[OSM-newbies] Wiki bug? - apparent content duplication of content

Richard Owlett rowlett at atlascomm.net
Thu Mar 19 02:44:46 GMT 2009


Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at atlascomm.net> wrote:
> 
>>I've been following links in an attempt to understand how national
>>borders are defined.
>>
>>I came across TWO URLs which seem to have the same content
>>   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level
>>   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary
>>
>>Each page has the identical HTML for page title
>>   <title>Key:boundary - OpenStreetMap</title>
> 
> 
> That's because the Key:admin_level page redirects to Key:boundary:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Key:admin_level&redirect=no
> 
> This is because the admin_level key is described inline in the
> Key:boundary page:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary#admin_level
> 
> If you look at the top of the page you can see "(Redirected from
> Key:admin level)".
> 

Thank you.
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