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

[Rory McCann]

On 19/03/2019 09:49, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> Old style wikipedia link is one where language is stored in key, not in
> value.
> 
> For example "wikipedia:en=Ireland" is an old style link, while
> "wikipedia=en:Ireland" is a form that is currently standard.

To expand, what do you mean here? What makes one the "standard" and the 
other not? What/who consumers wikipedia* tags in OSM and what do they do 
with it? Which format is better for the data consumers? If the 
wikipedia=en:X format is better than wikipedia:en=X format for data 
consumer Y, that's one thing. It just seems to squash a lot of data into 
one, and run the risk of losing data, since many wikipedia tags would be 
removed from OSM...

Rory