[Tagging] Deprecating wikipedia Tag

[Guillaume Allegre]

Le lun. 25 mai 2015 à 15:08 +0200, André Pirard a écrit :
> On 25 May 2015 at 13:18, Thorsten Alge <lists at thorsten-alge.de> wrote:
> > Since wikidata will be the center of all Wikimedia wikis it might be
> > better to link to wikidata items instead of wikipedia article. Thats
> > why I wonder what you think of deprecating the wikipedia tags (NOT
> > DELETING any of them) and focus on wikidata tags 
> 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?

Wikidata has one more advantage : sometimes, Wikipedia pages are renamed
(bad initial convention, or real-life renaming, or whatever), whereas
Wikidata items identifiers (Q...), are persistent for unique "concepts".

In WP, renaming is rare, but not very rare, so relying on wikidata would increase
the overall robustness of OSM/wiki* integration.



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