Hi Clifford, Let me clarify that we're discussing OSM tagging with Wikidata IDs, not Wikipedia articles. They are two related but different concepts.
Pine On Aug 8, 2016 22:05, "Clifford Snow" <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Speaking as an OSM novice but an experienced Wikimedian, having Wikidata >> ID tags makes sense to me. This sounds like something that could benefit >> Wikidata, Wikipedia, and other projects that recognize Wikidata IDs. There >> might be no need to have multiple external ID tags in OSM if the Wikidata >> tag is included and if other projects can recognize the Wikidata ID. >> However, this assumes that Wikidata agrees that objects that get tagged in >> OSM are worthy of having a Wikidata item; an unremarkable McDonald's might >> be below that threshold for Wikidata even if the store is worthy of >> inclusion on OSM. Pinging Lydia and Yuri to ask if they have thoughts about >> this. > > > Pine, > It was great meeting you at sotmus. > > Wikipedia tags should only be used on objects that have a wikipedia > article. McDonalds fastfood locations wouldn't normally have an article. > Similarly, something I can relate better to is Starbucks. We had a problem > where people were adding the starbucks wikipedia tag to every location. As > far as I could tell, only one starbucks has an article, the one by Pike > Place Market. Having the wikipedia tag was creating a problem with > Nominatim which gives a higher rank to locations with a wikipedia article. > > Most likely many brand name stores are tagged wrong. Someone with good > skills could write a script, after approval from the community, to remove > those tags. > > Clifford > > > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch >
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