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

[Sebastian Spiess]

I'd like to hear more about wikidata and how it is used. Maybe during a 
meet up...

Am 2019-03-18 12:40, schrieb 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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