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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nov 14, 2022, 09:12 by tomasstraupis@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>2022-11-14, pr, 01:27 Simonas Kazlauskas via Talk-lt rašė:<br></div><blockquote><div>A question worth asking is what purpose does a wikipedia relation serve, that isn’t already handled<br></div><div>by the wikidata relation? In particular, my view is that:<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>All our local (Lithuanian) services (user oriented as well as data<br></div><div>checking) use exclusively wikipedia tag and do not use wikidata tag.<br></div><div>Wikipedia tag is human readable, easy convertible to actual url<br></div><div>therefore more users can check/update/fill that tag.<br></div><div><br></div><div> When checking data I only check wikipedia tag and ignore wikidata.<br></div><div><br></div><div> Wikidata KB is too geeky, it is not presentable to average user.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">And in terms of benefits of wikidata tags - they are more stable <br></div><div dir="auto">and makes easier to fix broken wikipedia tags.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For example, thanks to them it was possible to partially automate<br></div><div dir="auto">recovery of wikipedia links after Wikipedia editors decided to<br></div><div dir="auto">move bunch of articles without leaving redirects.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://matkoniecz.github.io/OSM-wikipedia-tag-validator-reports/Lietuva%20(Lithuania%20-%20Litwa)%20-%20obvious.html#wikipedia%20wikidata%20mismatch%20-%20follow%20wikipedia%20redirect">https://matkoniecz.github.io/OSM-wikipedia-tag-validator-reports/Lietuva%20(Lithuania%20-%20Litwa)%20-%20obvious.html#wikipedia%20wikidata%20mismatch%20-%20follow%20wikipedia%20redirect</a><br></div><div dir="auto">for cases where such repair is possible in Lithuania as both<br></div><div dir="auto">wikipedia and wikidata are tagged, so fixes can be applied<br></div><div dir="auto">automatically<br></div><div dir="auto">(I see that renaming stubs about villages is liked also by<br></div><div dir="auto">authors of your Wikipedia, at least they left redirects)<br></div> </body>
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