[OSM-talk] Problems with the Multilingual Country-List

[Peter Körner]

Hi

I'm sorry to tell you that there was a major issue with the Multilingual 
Country-List that I didn't realize when it happend and now we to bite 
the bullet and face the problem: There are 70 countries in the osm-db 
that got lost in the list on 2009-08-21 between 17:00 and 18:00 for 
unknown reasons.

I'm guessing that there was a problem with the API and my script was so 
naive to beleive that no api-reponse for a node signs that it has been 
deleted. This was practical for testing but obviously not in productivity.

I created a new update-process using the xapi and also removed those 
idiotic deletes, but now I have to restore everything to the state of 
2009-08-21 at 17:00. Thisw means that all ok-marks in the last 6 days 
will be lost, but in exchange we could recover all ok-marks to those 70 
countries in all languages that were at 100% before. I think this is the 
lesser evil.

I'm sorry that this happened. The Multilingual Country-List is only an 
personal, hacky experiment on how tools could interact with OSM, the 
Community around it and how I could use the toolservers to make OSM 
better - nothing more.

Peter