[Tagging] Deprecating wikipedia Tag

[phil at trigpoint.me.uk]

On Mon May 25 14:29:21 2015 GMT+0100, Marc Gemis wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM, André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I already replied that I wonder what's the idea behind that enforcement.
> > Why wouldn't Wikidata be used "also" rather than "instead"?  Is it really a
> > goal of OSM insisting to destroy Wikipedia?
> >
> 
> So when people stop linking to Wikipedia, Wikipedia will be destroyed ? Or
> do I miss something here ?
> 
I think a lot of us mappers  are going to need a lot of convincing,  wikipedia tags, in common with other osm tags, are human readable. 
When reviewing changes I do not see a number that is meaningless without following the link, and even then the wikidata page looks pretty meaningless. 

Phil (trigpoint ) 
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