Already thousands of streets have been added to Wikidata, without having an article about them on Wikipedia, nor that it would likely get an article in Wikipedia.
Romaine 2015-03-10 14:31 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > Hi, > > [ Aude and Christian Consonni, this should especially interest you. ] > > I was throwing around ideas with a friend about how OpenStreetMap could be > integrated with Wikidata. > > The thing that I care the most in any software is internationalization. > Having a map in which all labels of towns, streets and everything else is > translated to all languages sounds like a super-wonderful thing. > > Wikidata allows labeling everything, translating everything, and attaching > properties to everything, so it sounds like it could be a good match. > > But then the question of "what IS everything" came up. Wikidata was > created mostly with Wikipedia in mind, so Wikipedia's notability policies > influenced Wikidata. Roughly, Wikidata has items for every thing about > which there is, or can be, a Wikipedia article and for things that are > useful, or if it "fulfills some structural need > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Notability>". > > Towns obviously have or can a Wikipedia article about them, but probably > not every street or shop. But do they fulfill a structural need or is it > way too much? > > If it's way too much, how can this be bridged, or federated, or whatever > the current popular word is? I don't even know exactly how does OSM store > labels and translations now, but it sounds like another instance of > Wikibase, if not Wikidata itself, can be used for it. > > I don't have much to add, but I'd love to hear ideas from people who do > (again, Aude and Christian Consonni, I'm looking at you :) ). > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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