[Tagging] Deprecating wikipedia Tag

moltonel 3x Combo moltonel at gmail.com
Mon May 25 14:24:05 UTC 2015


On 25/05/2015, phil at trigpoint.me.uk <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Also, a lot of wikipedia articles do not (yet) have a wikidata
counterpart. As OSM is quite a time sink already, I am not going to
start creating wikidata (or even wikipedia) articles when none exist
for an OSM object I'm editing.



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