On 06/12/2016 19:32, Andy Mabbett wrote:
.... also Wikidata - ...
Upon reading that my first thought was actually "checking all of the wikidata references that have been added by people not necessarily familiar with the area".
See, for example, the discussion on http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43749373 - lots of links have been added, many are wrong (FSVO of "wrong" - often wikidata has only one entity where OSM as two (e.g. "village" and "admin area"), and the wikidata entry describes itself being one of those only, and the "other" OSM item is also linked to it (incorrectly).
Unfortunately the wikidata links that have been added in this way devalue all the ones added by people who actually knew what they were doing, which is a shame. One way to rectify this might be to have people who actually know a particular area validate all the stuff that has been added by the various "mechanical turk" accounts.
Whether it's worth having it as a quarterly project is a different question of course - it's essentially a "bucket and shovel" job, and therefore something of a thankless task.
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