[Tagging] Deprecating wikipedia Tag
Eugene Alvin Villar
seav80 at gmail.com
Mon May 25 21:40:35 UTC 2015
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:18 AM, moltonel 3x Combo <moltonel at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Speaking of stable ids, how does wikidata handle renames, merges and
> splits on the wikipedia side ? Even in the best-case scenario, it
> seems that an OSM wikidata tag can drift off-target following
> reorganisations that are correct from a wikimedia POV but not from an
> OSM POV.
>
At least for renames, Wikidata gets automatically updated (and the changes
in Wikidata are registered under the user account of the Wikipedian who did
the rename). In fact, many Wikipedians have Wikidata edits that they don't
realize they did because they have renamed articles.
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