This was discussed here on this mailing list almost a year ago: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-February/013077.html
Here's the proposed tag in discussion: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata I guess there's no new information to be added to the discussion regarding using the Wikidata ID in a wikidata=* tag in lieu of the wikipedia=* tag. wikidata=* is more preferable from a data-coherency point of view, but wikipedia=* is much user-friendly for mappers (except that people often mis-tag this with the Wikipedia article URL instead of the recommended <language code:article title> value). On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 7:32 AM, ueliw0 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > with wikidata now operational, I was wondering if it would make sense to > use (tag) wikidata items instead of the wikipedia links. In the medium/long > term I think it could be beneficial. Language independent, often less > problems with articles that don't cover the same topic in different > languages, central place to connect different free data projects, direct > access/connection to data/statements like population, elevation, name/label > in many languages, ... > Only drawback I can see, is that wikidata item id's are just numbers and > therefore not human readable, but I think that could be solved rather > easily in the editors. > Any thoughts? > > cheers > ueli > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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