<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Tobias Knerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm@tobias-knerr.de" target="_blank">osm@tobias-knerr.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 06.05.2013 18:54, Peter Wendorff wrote:<br>
> Do they have something like a persistent ID in wikidata, yet?<br>
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</div>I think the Wikidata page title - something like Q35525 - is intended to<br>
be rather stable. Of course there are sometimes problems, such as<br>
duplicates or interwiki conflicts, that make it necessary to change<br>
items. But unlike unlike OSM, Wikidata actually cares about providing an<br>
ID for a distinct semantic entity.<br>
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In my opinion, this is a major reason to link to Wikidata using OSM<br>
tags, and not the other way round. (Improving our data model in that<br>
regard doesn't seem realistic in the short term.)<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">For those who are not on the tagging mailing list, the wikidata=* tag has been proposed[1], and discussed on the tagging mailing list starting late February 2013[2]. Based on my assessment of the discussion, there doesn't seem to be a clamor to add the wikidata=* tag to replace or even as an additional tag to the wikipedia=* tag. The concern is that wikipedia=* is much more easier for the average mapper to grasp than the wikidata=* tag.<br>
<br>[1] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata</a><br>[2] <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-February/013077.html">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-February/013077.html</a><br>
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