Replacing the deprecated `wikipedia:en` tags with newer `wikipedia` tags sounds like a great idea. As mentioned on Slack, I agree that if you can add `wikidata` tags at the same time, even better.
Thank you for your work on this! Bryan > On Feb 26, 2019, at 7:51 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> > wrote: > > Old style wikipedia link is one where language is stored in key, not in value. > > For example "wikipedia:en=Kansas" is an old style link, while > "wikipedia=en:Kansas" > is a form that is currently standard. > > Many old-style Wikipedia links remain and updating them to new style manually > is > boring, tedious and some mistakes may appear during this. > > Some OSM elements have old-style Wikipedia link without new tag what means > that this data > is harder to process for editors and data consumers. > > Also, remaining old-style Wikipedia tags confuse mappers, especially less > experienced. > > Therefore I propose to run an automatic edit that will replace old-style > Wikipedia links > with current style of Wikipedia links. > > Please comment no matter what you think about this idea! I will not make the > edit without a clear > support so please comment if you think that it is a good idea and if you > think that it should not be done. > > Plan is as follows: > > I will take full responsibility for all edits and if anything goes wrong I > will fix it. > > Editing is limited to objects with old-style Wikipedia tags is not > conflicting with existing wikipedia=* > or wikidata=* tag or other old-style wikipedia tags. > > Links detected as invalid (leading to disambigs, articles about humans, > animals, plants, events etc) > are also skipped > > Each changeset contains a single element or group of close elements to avoid > edits spanning > across large areas (it is impossible in cases where edited object itself > spans very large area) > > After every changeset bot sleeps for one minute. > > This is proposed as reoccurring edit and may be made as soon as new old-style > wikipedia links appear. > > documentation page on OSM Wiki is at > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/elimination_of_old-style_Wikipedia_links_in_USA > > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account/elimination_of_old-style_Wikipedia_links_in_USA> > > I have experience with automatic edits. exactly the same task was run in > Poland to remove > more than 6000 old-style Wikipedia links what was completed without any > issues. > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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