[OSM-talk] Bot edits on the OSM wiki

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Tobias, thank you for clarification.  The lang parameter was very often
incorrect because people copy/pasted it without changing.  I did a minor
clean up with a manual inspection of every edit - similar to many of my
previous edits (by "yurik" account), but with the bot+minor flag to avoid
exactly the problem that Christoph outlined - to reduce spam in the
watchlist and recentchanges.  Note that the only way you would get a
notification is if you have "Email me also for minor edits of pages and
files" checked on your user preferences page (disabled by default).

The goal of the project [1] is to organize key and tag documentation - make
it available to other systems in a machine readable format, allow JOSM and
iD to get that data directly, and allow users to contribute key/tag/rel
descriptions without the need to create wiki pages (or to even know what
wiki markup is or how to create a template with parameters).  Lastly, this
project will highlight accidental (but numerous) mismatches between
languages -- wiki pages in different languages very often show different
mismatched information in the sidebox (e.g. if it is ok to use on a
node/way/rel, or status). Some cases are warranted, but the vast majority
are simply stale translations.  Eventually the hope is to remove all
parameters from the wiki pages, and just have a  {{TagDescription}} without
any parameters to show an infobox.  It will also allow wiki to avoid tables
of values with duplicated information.

[1]  https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_items
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