Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-11-04 Thread Colin Smale
WARNING: CHECK YOUR BOUNDARIES! Longbow4u has been causing other problems with these edits as well. In Kent the boundaries of Ashford and Shepway districts have been emptied of ways. The addition of wikipedia links is continuing apace, sometimes in English, sometimes in German. This

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-22 Thread Tom Chance
On 21 October 2012 23:13, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Personally, I'd say that if the process requires the duplication of exactly the same value as is already in name that the process is flawed... I think it can be useful because the article name isn't always just the OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread Philip Barnes
I am baffled by this one http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13567143, amongst many others. Anyone able to ask why in a politely worded German email? Phil -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 21/10/2012 16:33 SomeoneElse wrote: On 21/10/2012 16:08, Robert Norris wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread Robert Norris
Looks bonkers to me. Have you tried sending them a polite message asking them what what the purpose of the links are that they're adding? It was quite succinct, so maybe not that polite. ___ Talk-GB

Re: [Talk-GB] Addition of Wikipedia links in German!

2012-10-21 Thread Robert Norris
because of the WIWOSM feature in Wikipedia. By adding one link to a Wikipedia-Article (which language is not important) on the relation of an administrative district, the area will be marked in the maps of some wikipedias (de, it, es etc (however, not yet en)) as a field. Find more