[Tagging] Deprecating wikipedia Tag

[Andy Mabbett]

On 25 May 2015 at 17:13, moltonel 3x Combo <moltonel at gmail.com> wrote:

> * wikipedia names are friendlyer to mappers, and generally more well-known

Wikidata labels should be more useful, contain less redundancy, and be
no less well-known. For example, "High Street" rather than "High
Street, Birmingham"

> * wikidata objects don't necessarily exist for all wikipedia articles
> we want to use

Apart from newly created Wikipedia articles, with a Wikidata item not
far behind, the reverse is true.

> * For data consumers wanting to show the wikipedia article (by far the
> most common usecase), using the wikipedia tag is much more
> straightforward than using the wikidata tag

Except when the Wikipedia article has been moved and the old name reused.

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Andy Mabbett
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