Mechanical Edits/Mateusz Konieczny - bot account/fixing wikidata tags pointing at redirects in USA

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Page content created as advised on Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct#Document_and_discuss_your_plans.

Who

I, Mateusz Konieczny using my bot account

contact

message via OSM I will respond also to PMs to the bot account. In both cases I will be notified about incoming PMs via email and notifications in OSM editors.

What

Fixing wikidata tags pointing at redirects, so tag after edit points directly at an entry.

Editing are restricted to USA.

Why

Wikidata tags are not supposed to point at redirects.

Fixing redirects is highly tedious and bot making this kind of edit is less likely to make mistakes than a human.

Numbers

Depends on how many new redirects appear - depends on editing activity in OSM and Wikidata.

How

  • Editing is limited to wikidata=* tags that link to a redirect that leads to page matching wikipedia=* tag
  • Each changeset contains a single region
  • After every changeset bot sleeps for one minute

Example:
state before a mechanical edit:

source

state after an edit:


With changeset comment " handle unstable wikidata ids - apply redirects ". Bot changeset is also tagged with tags that mark it as automatic, provide link to discussion approving edit, link repository with source code etc

See https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/145268895 for an example mechanical edit.

Discussion

Approved by USA OSM community at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/bot-edit-proposal-update-wikidata-tag-redirects-where-updated-value-would-match-present-wikipedia-tag/106588 and https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1698760768541059

Repetition

This is reoccurring edit and may be made as soon as new matching elements appear. At this moment triggering new edit requires human intervention so exact schedule is not predictable and bot may stop running at any moment.

This can change in a future. If bot is abandoned and does not run, feel free to ping me. If I am unable to run it any more feel free to use my code. Note that it may require going through bot approval process again and that code is on specific license.

https://codeberg.org/matkoniecz/OpenStreetMap_cleanup_scripts/src/branch/master/recurrent_bot_edits may have more up to date code version that what is listed on this page

Opt-out

Please write at https://community.openstreetmap.org/ in thread where discussion has taken place.

See also

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