Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of old-style Wikipedia links in Ireland

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Mar 20, 2019, 1:01 PM by marc.ge...@gmail.com:

> AFAIK, one should use the main language of the area in which the
> feature is located. I think it is supposed to follow the language used
> to determine the name tag.
> So for the Belgian/Flemish town Antwerpen (Antwerp in English), you
> should use wikipedia=nl:Antwerpen (stad)
> This links to the Wikipedia page: > 
> https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerpen_(stad) 
> <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerpen_(stad)>
> Wikipedia knows that the English page is
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp>>  (perhaps by using Wikidata
> internally)
>
Yes, the most useful part of Wikidata is linking Wikipedia articles 
in various languages with each other.

In this case see right side of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12892 
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12892>
And Wikipedia is using this data to display


> This link and links to over a hundred other languages is found on the left
>

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