[Talk-GB] Hello world and automated change proposal: Add missing URL scheme on UK's Pubs websites

[Dave F]

On 27/09/2020 19:35, Andrew Hain wrote:
> Keep Right flags web links that have gone offline.

Unfortunately it doesn't really do that. After a discussion with the 
developer I found out it tests whether a server in central Europe has a 
link to the UK URLs not if the actual link is current. I was coming 
across far too many time consuming false-positives for it to be useful.

Anyone know if there's a way to at least use a UK based server or to 
conveniently ping multiple websites directly?

DaveF


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> Andrew
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> *From:* Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>
> *Sent:* 27 September 2020 18:49
> *To:* talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Hello world and automated change proposal: 
> Add missing URL scheme on UK's Pubs websites
> On Sun, 2020-09-27 at 16:28 +0100, Rodrigo Díez Villamuera wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> First of all, I would like to introduce myself on this email list and 
>> to thank you all for your contributions to OSM. Great work!
>>
>> After some time using OSM as a user, I decided to make my first step 
>> as a contributor, hence this email and the proposal inside.
>>
>> Please bear in mind that this is my first attempt to contribute with 
>> a proposal and, although I have done my best reading the community 
>> conventions and best practices, I am sure I have made some mistakes 
>> on the way. Be merciful! :P
>>
>> To the point now.
>>
>> I am importing a subset of nodes from UK (those tagged with 
>> amenity:pub) for a pet project.
>>
>> When analysing the data I realised that some of these nodes contain a 
>> website: tag that does not contain an appropriate URL schema 
>> (http/https).
>>
>> Ie: www.mypub.com <http://www.mypub.com> rather than 
>> http://www.mypub.com <http://www.mypub.com> or https://www.mypub.com
>>
>> This goes in contradiction with the Wiki documentation for website. 
>> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:website>
>>
>> I created a proposal for a one-off, scoped, automated edit for these 
>> nodes to find the appropiate scheme for the existing URL and retag 
>> the nodes.
>>
>> I added the proposal to the Automated edits log. You can read it here 
>> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits/rodrigodiez/Add_missing_URL_scheme_to_pub_websites_in_UK>.
>>
>> Just wanted to share the proposal with the UK community, gather your 
>> feedback, comments and advises on how to proceed from here
>>
> One issue I can think of with pubs and websites is that they need 
> checking to ensure they are still current.
>
> The defacto method most pubs use to communicate with customers is 
> facebook.
>
> A more general fix of urls missing http(s)://, why only pubs?.  is 
> probably a maproulette quest.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
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