[Tagging] Subsequent wikipedia links
Jo
winfixit at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 22:58:19 UTC 2014
I've been experimenting with Wikidata a bit. I'm not a Wikipedian, rather a
convinced Openstreetmapper. One of the problems I had with Wiktionary and
Wikipedia is how data is duplicated over and over again. Wikidata finally
started solving that.
We should take advantage from that.
Here are some examples of things I consider useful:
Everything named after Guido Gezelle (mostly streets)
http://overpass-turbo.eu/?Q=%28relation[%22name%3Aetymology%3Awikidata%22%3D%22Q336977%22]%3B%0A%3E%3E%3B%0A%3E%3B%0Away[%22name%3Aetymology%3Awikidata%22%3D%22Q336977%22]%3B%0A%3E%3B%0Anode[%22name%3Aetymology%3Awikidata%22%3D%22Q336977%22]%3B%29%3B%0Aout%20meta%3B&C=51.98185;4.83689;7&R
Replace it with Q232785 and you get everything related to Father Damien.
Unfortunately I didn't find where they buried his hands on Molokai.
Polyglot
2014-07-02 0:22 GMT+02:00 Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de>:
> On 01.07.2014 22:25, yvecai wrote:
> > This map could also be done with a third project linking OSM and
> > Wikidata by automatically linking both datasets instead of manual tag
> > entry of technical references.
> > Call Overpass for OSM data (admin boundaries), then search wikimedia
> > commons for flags with the corresponding name.
>
> But why would you prefer such a vague and error-prone style of linking
> when unambiguous linking via ID is possible?
>
> Even in very simple cases this is going to break down. Searching for
> "flag Austria" on Wikimedia Commons, for example, gives you the
> following top three hits:
>
> 1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animated-Flag-Austria.gif
> 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_Austria_template.gif
> 3. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smile-flag_Austria.gif
>
> The one we actually want is only ranked fourth:
>
> 4. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Austria.svg
>
> Wikidata, on the other hand, gets us straight to the one we want. How
> isn't this the better solution?
>
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