[Tagging] part_of:wikidata key

[Christoph Hormann]

On Wednesday 29 November 2017, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>
> So you want us to develop OSM tools and improve editors to preserve
> and manage OSM ID inheritance/permanence. But this is not a simple
> problem to solve.
>
> On the other hand, you deem maintenance of Wikidata IDs in OSM a huge
> bother. But we can create OSM tools and improve editors as well to
> help manage this. I imagine that this is a simpler problem to solve
> than the first problem of OSM ID permanence.
>
> Also, we don't require mappers to add wikipedia=* tags to objects
> they map in OSM, or to maintain these Wikipedia tags so that they
> remain accurate and updated. Other mappers are free to update and
> maintain these tags. This is accepted practice and there is no huge
> outcry against adding more wikipedia=* tags.

Please don't recite what i wrote in a distorting way.  I said nothing of 
what you imply i said above.  You are free to ignore what i said or 
interpret it for you as you like but you are not free to present a 
distorting interpretation as if i actually said that.

I am aware that that the analysis and suggestions i present are often 
very brief and sometimes difficult to understand - when i say something 
like "external IDs [...] will never scale on a level of hundreds of 
millions of features in the end" you will only be able to understand 
what i mean if you approach the subject with an open mind and analyze 
the same scenario questioning any preconceived assumptions you might 
have about it.  But i have no intention pressing anyone who is not 
ready for it to do that.

> This accepted practice with respect to wikipedia=* tags can be
> equally applied to wikidata=* tags. We won't require mappers to do
> research to add this tag, but other mappers are free to add/maintain
> these as well. I see no huge problem with this.

I have no real problem with that either - just like i have no problem 
with people keeping adding is_in tags.  As said i would advise against 
it but we have the freedom to use any tags you want and i firmly 
believe in that.  You can question if this freedom applies to 
non-verifiable tags but i am not niggling here.  Automated edits 
adding/modifying wikidata tags are a different subject of course but 
that is not the topic here.

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/