Talk:Automated edits/JurgenG/European municipality websites

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Hi @JurgenG: good that you started this page after requested in the discussion of CS 162205669. There's a bit more to add, please read Automated Edits code of conduct#Document_and_discuss_your_plans carefully. —M!dgard 🇧🇪 (talk) 13:01, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes... I added it. I was taken aghast a bit by the sheer amount of documentation required for something I just wanted to do because it was so boring to do it all by hand. Admittedly, there was a (nasty) bug in the code. But as I understand it, if I would manually add all these websites to the cities... all would be okay. If I want to automate it, it needs to go through all these administrative hoops. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JurgenG (talk • contribs)

OSM is the most free project in terms of what you can just start doing, that I know of. But people do use it. Some of the emergency services use it. I received a message from a data user because their dataset had broken. (Because I had initially missed one of your bad changesets.) If our data has a big breakage, that's a big deal. I have personally spent my volunteer time cleaning up your mess and explaining everything to you. So to me it feels really inappropriate for you to complain about "all these administrative hoops" which consist simply of documenting and discussing your plans, which also forces you to do some reflecting on what you're doing which you should have been doing anyway, and making sure everyone is on board. 🤨 By the way, the Wikipedia part of adding them manually would still fall under the Import Guidelines. It also will in your automated plan. I couldn't say so earlier, since this is the first mention of Wikipedia you make. —M!dgard 🇧🇪 (talk) 18:11, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Websites of commercial companies that named as city

You can add not:website=* in such cases. It will help prevent adding this URL by mistake. Something B (talk) 17:25, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Note that if the municipality has a website, you can just add the correct website=* on the object, and the not:website=* isn't that useful. Also note that this will not put any technical restriction to adding this: you can have not:website=https://spa.be/ and website=https://spa.be/ on the same object. —M!dgard 🇧🇪 (talk) 20:13, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Of course, website=* is sufficient if the municipality has a website, but otherwise not:website=* may be useful, and although it will not prevent to add incorrect website, it can cause validation warnings, or indicate that website has been checked - and not confirmed. Something B (talk) 15:16, 8 March 2025 (UTC)