[Tagging] Deprecating wikipedia Tag

[Andy Mabbett]

On 25 May 2015 at 17:32, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought all wikipedia articles had been transformed into wikidata entities
> (that's what I was told from a guy from wikimedia).

He was correct.

> The big difference that I see that could be there (in theory, the current
> situation wasn't like that when I had looked at it some months ago):
> wikidata is about entities. wikipedia articles are that: articles, they
> could deal with different (wikidata) entities in the same article.

Then we also create a Wikidata item for the higher-level concept
("Bonnie and Clyde" being the popular example).

> Like others have said before, for me the problem with wikidata tags at the
> moment is still, that we don't have particular editor support for them, so
> that you have to follow the link in order to see what the tag is about and
> spot possible errors or control what you have just entered yourself.

That seems to be a chicken-and-egg problem.

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Andy Mabbett
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