On 29 April 2017 at 22:03, Andrew Hain <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> What about the Wikidata links that some pages have in their infoboxes? Is > there the same objection there? No. The arguments made by Martin against linking to Wikipedia (which are themselves weak) do not stand up at all for Wikidata: > Wikipedia articles have a different scope, and quite often there > are several articles in WP for what in OSM is tagged with the > same tag, Wikidata can have 'parent' items, at the equivalent level to the OSM tag. If no such item exists, one can be created. > and sometimes we have multiple tags in OSM each covering a > specific aspect or subtype of what is covered by a single WP > article. Wikidata is much more granular; and can have an item for everything which has an OSM tag, Again, if one dies not exist, create it! > One recent example is the linking of the WP article castle from > the osm tag castle, where our tag covers much more than just > medieval fortified residences in Europe and the middle east > (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23413e.g. what in WP is described under > chateau, or the Japanese > Shiros and Russian Kremlins) This is apparently a case where OSM (or, at ealst, the OSM wiki) is in error. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
