[Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of old-style Wikipedia links in USA

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Old style wikipedia link is one where language is stored in key, not in value.

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

Many old-style Wikipedia links remain and updating them to new style manually is
boring, tedious and some mistakes may appear during this.

Some OSM elements have old-style Wikipedia link without new tag what means that this data
is harder to process for editors and data consumers.

Also, remaining old-style Wikipedia tags confuse mappers, especially less experienced.

Therefore I propose to run an automatic edit that will replace old-style Wikipedia links
with current style of Wikipedia links.

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.

Plan is as follows:

I will take full responsibility for all edits and if anything goes wrong I will fix it.

Editing is limited to objects with old-style Wikipedia tags is not conflicting with existing wikipedia=* 
or wikidata=* tag or other old-style wikipedia tags.

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

Each changeset contains a single element or group of close elements to avoid edits spanning 
across large areas (it is impossible in cases where edited object itself spans very large area)

After every changeset bot sleeps for one minute.

This is proposed as reoccurring edit and may be made as soon as new old-style wikipedia links appear.

documentation page on OSM Wiki is at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/elimination_of_old-style_Wikipedia_links_in_USA <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/elimination_of_old-style_Wikipedia_links_in_USA>

I have experience with automatic edits. exactly the same task was run in Poland to remove
more than 6000 old-style Wikipedia links what was completed without any issues.
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