[OSM-talk] Mechanical name edit? (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

[Roland Olbricht]

Hi,

> Not only well-known tourist magnets carry foreign names; some dedicated
> language mappers have gone over and beyond the call of duty and added,
> for example, name:ru tags even to small villages:
[..]
> (This is a matter currently under investigation by Data Working Group
> and it is relatively certain that not all 582,653 name:ru tags will remain.)

Thank you for informing the community. Do you actually have substantial 
evidence of a mechanical edit or something similar?

When checking e.g. Wales
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9EQ
I found a distribution that rather looks like the result of human activity.

Even more, the biggest changeset involved
http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/24593727
has a full discussion attached to it:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2014-August/016294.html

When cross-checking with another region (in Northrhine-Westphalia) I 
found that the "name:ru" tags there have been added by an even bigger 
number of different mappers. For some of them, I know personally that 
they are locals. For example, the stadium in Cologne seems to have got 
its Russian name when a football match to a Russian team took place.

So, could you please point out a suspicious changeset?

Best regards,

Roland