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

phil at trigpoint.me.uk phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Wed Mar 20 11:44:39 UTC 2019


How do I tag for this situation?

 How is 'the proper' language decided? 

Phil 

On Wednesday, 20 March 2019, Marc Gemis wrote:
> The reply that I got more than a year ago when the Mapbox team was
> doing a similar quest, was that the Wikipedia pages for multiple
> languages are linked and that the data consumer should display the
> page in the proper language.
> 
> m.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:53 AM <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> > >
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