Cross fertilization ... - Wikimediauk-l

19 Jul 2015

Not sure if this is the right forum to discuss this, but at least a UK
group will understand UK geography :)

Facebook is in a right mess as far as it's list of places that people
can select to use as location markers.
http://www.jasonfriend.me/facebookplaces/w/editing:incorrectlyspelledcities…
will give you some idea of the extent of the problem, and that is by no
means complete. You will notice that Wikipedia links are used to provide
background information and basically prove to US edtors that we know
what we are talking about, but the wikipedia page names are ow causing
problems as they are being taken 'literally'.

Example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlington identifies three UK locations,
but uses 'London' rather than 'Hillingdon' to identify that page. As
soon as one is on the page the Hillingdon connection is listed, but
Facebook are making a meal out of things which is creating even more of
a mess.

While it is not a wikipedia problem, one tidy up that would make things
a little more consistent across several directories would be to replace
many of the ,London disambiguation with the correct borough and then the
crude Facebook processing would at least pick up the right cross link
without having to mess up the hierarchy in Facebook. Personally I'd
prefer it if Facebook used a better method of listing places, but many
of these problems go back several years and we have not been able to get
any movement, so fixing the other end first may finally prompt some
action :)

( And I do not have any problem undertaking the work. I've got most of
the problem links already documented as part of the 'fix Facebook'
campaign )

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