Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Archer
It's also, for simialr reasons, easier for a human editor to add a Wikipedia link, but a script (or even the editing tool itself) could then do a lookup and subistite, or add, the Wikidata ID. It isn't that easy to add Wikidata ID's with a script. Wikipedia articles often describe more than

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
Apologies; this was meant for the list (*please* can we make the list behave in a more standard way?) -- Forwarded message -- From: Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk Date: 17 June 2014 13:57 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?) To: Archer

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Tom Hughes
On 17/06/14 15:56, Andy Mabbett wrote: Apologies; this was meant for the list (*please* can we make the list behave in a more standard way?) There is no standard, and if you think there is then you are wrong. The argument over how to set reply-to for mailing lists has been going on for over

[Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Archer
dito for the list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Archer arc...@gulli.com Date: 2014-06-17 15:21 GMT+02:00 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?) To: Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk 2014-06-17 14:57 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Archer wrote: I understood your further post in this manner: you want to take the Wikipedia link and add with a script or bot the associated Wikidata-ID. This would add the Wikidata ID Q3038 to both OSM objects place=island and boundary=administrative of Heligoland because both objects in OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
To continue your example, there could be St Nicolas's, St Nicolas's Church Gardens, and St Nicolas's Gift Shop all near each other. Which one should the wikipedia page St Nicolas's Church match? Great to see support for the idea. I think it's been a bit of a complex one that hasn't been grasped

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Fwd: Adding links to Wikidata (and Wikipedia?)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Nickerson
Nice idea. I guess overpass is another great tool tgat could be used to retreive data. Wikipedia tags left as is? Absolutely. This is a data creation thing only. We wouldn't remove or change any existing tags. I speak theoretically of course. At the moment this is just an idea, hoping to spark