[OSM-talk-ie] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of old-style Wikipedia links in Ireland

[Andy Mabbett]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 08:49, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:

> For example "wikipedia:en=Ireland" is an old style link, while
> "wikipedia=en:Ireland" is a form that is currently standard.

> 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.

Sounds good. Can you do this outside Ireland also?

> Links detected as invalid (leading to disambigs, articles about humans,
> animals, plants, events etc) are also skipped

Can you flag these up; perhaps by writing to a list on a wiki page?
They need to be reviewed, and probably corrected.

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Andy Mabbett
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