On 14 June 2014 12:31, Robert Norris <[email protected]> wrote: > How do/would Wikidata links relate to Wikipedia links in OSM objects? > > i.e. Does this suggest Wikidata links should supercede Wikipedia links or > would they be complimentary?
Strictly speaking, a Wikidata link makes links to Wikipedia redundant, as the Wikidata item itself links to relevant Wikipedia pages. Pragmatically, though, human editors (as opposed to machine parsers) may prefer to see a Wikipedia link, in their own and or the local language(s), as they have text labels in the language concerned. 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. > Presumably if complimentary (to maintain existing data users' usage of > Wikipedia tags) - one could write a test to confirm they are referencing the > same thing to check consistency. One could. It's the sort of thing a validator like that in JOSM might check. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
