[OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

Ryszard Mikke ryszard.mikke at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 20:49:45 UTC 2017


On 3 October 2017 at 23:21, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:

> While I have nothing against pausing bulk wikidata additions for a month,
> we should be very clear here:
> * several communities use bots to maintain and inject these tags, e.g.
> Israel. Should they pause their bots?
> * If a specific community is ok with it, does it override world wide ban
> for that location?
> * Has anyone actually been doing world-wide bulk wikidata additions ever
> since this discussion has restarted after what I thought was a settled
> matter about two weeks ago?
>

Yup, I have been updating wikidata entries for northern and central Europe
more or less every weekend, with Overpass and JOSM's Wikipedia plugin.
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