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

[phil at trigpoint.me.uk]

How do you intend to deal with bi-lingual areas where having Wikipedia links in both languages is an important cultural consideration? 

Phil (trigpoint)

On Tuesday, 19 March 2019, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> 
> Mar 19, 2019, 3:10 PM by rory at technomancy.org:
> 
> > I'm not sure why one would bother with this, but whatever.
> >
> It went as follows:
> 
> - I made small prototype tool listing tourism attractions based on OSM data
> - during development I discovered massive amount of broken wikipedia and wikidata tags
> - due to scale and that problems were fixable by automatic edit I made a program for bot edits
> (library parts ended on https://github.com/matkoniecz/osm_bot_abstraction_layer <https://github.com/matkoniecz/osm_bot_abstraction_layer> and
> https://github.com/matkoniecz/wikibrain <https://github.com/matkoniecz/wikibrain> )
> - I made bot edits that fixed tens of thousands objects in Poland
> - in most cases (except one depending on links to TERYT, official government dataset in Poland)
> scripts can be used in other regions
> - so now I am checking whatever I would be allowed to run this script in various places,
> including ones where some tagging issues are quite rare and would not justify
> writing and testing an OSM bot - but running existing one is IMHO a good idea
> 
> > Are they any cases where there are more than wikipedia:XX tag, and what will you do in that case? What will the wikipedia tag be?
> >
> In case of existing matching wikipedia tag - there is no problem and wikipedia:XX tags
> will be removed.
> 
> Otherwise object will be skipped for a manual review.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-ie mailing list
> Talk-ie at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
>

-- 
Sent from my Sailfish device