[OSM-talk] Fixing OSM wikipedia redirects

Mark Wagner mark+osm at carnildo.com
Tue Sep 26 06:58:44 UTC 2017


On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:11:52 -0400
Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the moment, there are nearly 40,000 OSM objects whose wikipedia
> tag does not match their wikidata tag. Most of them are Wikipedia
> redirects, whose target is the right wikipedia article.

What about the ones where the article is a Wikipedia redirect, whose
target is *almost, but not quite* the right Wikipedia article?  I'm
thinking about things like neighborhoods of a city, where Wikipedia
currently has a redirect to the city article.

-- 
Mark



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