[OSM-talk] Own wikipage for every single speed limit??

[Jochen Topf]

On Fr, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:51:40 -0700, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> On 2014-08-28 04:37, Jochen Topf wrote:
> >Redirect pages can have a bad effect, though. Taginfo will show if a wiki page
> >exists for a key or tag. Taginfo can't know why there is a redirect. Is this a
> >case where the redirect directs from a "typo page" to the "real page" or is
> >this a case where, like in the maxspeed case, several pages for totally
> >good tags have been rolled into one. So taginfo shows them all the same and
> >might lead people into thinking the "typo key" is the real one, if they don't
> >click through to the page.
> >
> >The problem behind this is that there is no way to mark the reason why there is
> >a redirect. It could be "old now discontinued name", or "common misspelling",
> >or "this page would be basically a copy of this other one, so look there", or
> >probably some other reasons. Redirects hide this information, that could be
> >written down on the page instead. So I think redirects should be avoided. In
> >particular, misspellings would be better handled by having a slightly fuzzy
> >search (not sure how good MediaWiki is for that).
> 
> At Wikipedia, templates are categorized using a series of templates like {{R
> from misspelling}}. You just place them on the line following the #redirect
> tag. Could taginfo be made to look for these templates or the categories
> they sort into?
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:R_from_misspelling

It could. But humans will not see anything in those redirect pages without
jumping through hoops, so I think this makes a bad situation even worse.

Jochen
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