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

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Agree with Bryan.  :)

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:43 AM Bryan Housel <bhousel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Replacing the deprecated `wikipedia:en` tags with newer `wikipedia` tags
> sounds like a great idea.  As mentioned on Slack, I agree that if you can
> add `wikidata` tags at the same time, even better.
>
> Thank you for your work on this!
> Bryan
>
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2019, at 7:51 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> 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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