[Tagging] Deprecating wikipedia Tag

[André Pirard]

On 2015-05-25 15:29, Marc Gemis wrote :
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM, André Pirard
> <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com <mailto: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 ?
>
It's better understood  with the full quote, Marc ...

On 2015-05-25 15:08, André Pirard wrote :
> 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?
> That suggestion sounds to me as bizarre as wanting to replace English
> with French.
>
> Everybody be happy,
The question is not "people stopping linking to Wikipedia", it is
"commanding them to do so".
"deprecating" Wikipedia for OSM is causing the "destruction" of its OSM
usage.
Should Wikipedia become less interesting, the deprecation will happen by
itself.

André.



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