[Tagging] Future of categories (was: Re: Deprecating wikipedia Tag)

[David Bannon]

On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 18:06 +0000, Janko Mihelić wrote:
> I think we need a separate instalation of wikibase on our wiki. No
> need to fork wikibase. Then we can organize our tags in categories,
> subcategories, relations to outside data like wikidata and so on.

Yep, great concept, could be OSM Tagging Mk 2. But big project you are
talking about here. A very big project !

David
> 
> Not only that, but make that wikibase a sort of an API to our tags.
> For example, if a data consumer wants to render all places where you
> can get food (restaurants, fast foods, convenience stores) it would
> just link a category named "food places" to an icon and that would be
> it. No need for everyone to understand all the possible tags that our
> database has.
> 
> Janko
> 
> 
> uto, 26. svi 2015. 16:56 Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> je
> napisao:
>         On 26 May 2015 at 13:01, Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:
>         >> So a usecase:
>         >>
>         >> Say you want to locate all the streets and other objects
>         named after
>         >> 17th century Dutch painters, worldwide.
>         >>
>         >> You could start by finding the painters from wikidata, then
>         use the
>         >> Overpass API to do a regular expression search with all the
>         resulting
>         >> Q-numbers.
>         
>         > Wikidata alone may be problematic, because it's independent
>         project,
>         
>         Why would that be a problem?
>         
>         > but it
>         > is big database of objects and their relations, so we could
>         have better
>         > classification of our objects. Maybe close cooperation or
>         fork would suit
>         > our needs?
>         
>         Fork Wikidata? Why? Doesn't this community have enough to do,
>         just mapping?
>         
>         > Wikimedia already use our data for showing maps in the
>         articles,
>         > so I think it may be beneficial for both parties to have a
>         close
>         > cooperation.
>         
>         That is indeed what's proposed.
>         
>         --
>         Andy Mabbett
>         @pigsonthewing
>         http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
>         
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