[talk-au] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of old-style Wikipedia links in Australia

[Sam Wilson]

Sounds good, especially as we're not the guineapig location. :)

I've given up adding wikipedia tags of any style, and now just add wikidata.

On 3/18/19 3:52 AM, Mateusz Konieczny 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.
> 
> 
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