O, I even believe that e.g. all (or a large number of) Dutch streets are in Wikidata without having a Wikipedia article for the individual streets.
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for explaining, Andy. > > Please note that as I said before, it is not true that there is a > Wikipedia article for each Wikidata item. E.g. There is a whole group > working on inventarising art in musea. They do create Wikidata items, > but no Wikipedia articles for the individual items. It is true that > each Wikipedia article (or page) has a Wikidata entry, but not the > other way around. > > regards > > m > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 28/09/2017 10:36, Marc Gemis wrote: >>> >>> Andy are you now saying that it is OK to have 1 wikidata tag on each >>> street, so someone can create an external list of streets with >>> Wikidata ids to represent some kind of collection (like "all streets >>> named after Leuven") ? >> >> Firstly I'm not saying "what is or is not OK" - that's essentially the point >> of this discussion, to find out what people do think. >> >> What I'm saying is that the expression of that sort of relationship possibly >> doesn't belong in OSM itself (because it's not really on-the-ground >> verifiable, or at least in many cases it won't be). >> >> If a street passed whatever tests wikipedia impose to have a wikipedia >> entry, and by inference a wikidata one (wikidata items essentially being all >> created from wikipedia, with links added later) then yes, by all means add a >> wikipedia/wikidata link to the OSM object, then add your "etymology" link >> within wikidata. >> >> Obviously wikipedia/wikidata's rules for inclusion are very different to >> ours (in some cases the opposite - wikipedia says "no original research - >> please copy from some other source"). There are plenty of examples of >> things that people think should be in wikipedia and aren't, and also things >> that shouldn't be in wikipedia/wikidata (because they don't exist) and are. >> >> Best Regards, >> Andy >> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
