[Tagging] Fwd: OSM Wikibase is now live

Yuri Astrakhan yuriastrakhan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 17:08:02 UTC 2018


Peter, just to set the right expectations:  the licensing initiative would
ONLY affect the metadata, not the actual OSM data.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:57 PM peterkrauss <peter at openstreetmap.com.br>
wrote:

> Thanks Yuri,
> ... and Hello community!  Lets vote?
> How to start a formal and democratic process for it?
>
> PS: will be the biggest improvement of 2018, waving with structured data
> and CC0
> for government adoption of the OSM!
>
>
> Em 2018-09-18 13:43, Yuri Astrakhan escreveu:
> > Peter, I agree it would be much easier to use OSM metadata under CC0,
> > and I might even be able to change the interface to show CC0 for the
> > Item namespace, but we may have to rewrite all of the description
> > text. If the community is OK with that undertaking (or if a short one
> > sentence description does not result in a violation), I will be happy
> > to make that change.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:37 PM peterkrauss
> > <peter at openstreetmap.com.br> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, veri good news!
> >> About license, can by changed to CC0 as Wikidata?
> >>
> >> It very important in structured data and data-interchange to use
> >> CC0...
> >> We are using Wikidata with government applications because is CC0:
> >> we
> >> can copy/paste wikidata information to a table and publish the table
> >>
> >> with the text of an official act (law).. The text of the official
> >> act
> >> MUST be CC0.
> >>
> >> Em 2018-09-18 06:43, Yuri Astrakhan escreveu:
> >>> Cross-posting to tagging as this new effort should help tagging
> >> and
> >>> metadata management the most.
> >>>
> >>> Osmaritans,
> >>>
> >>> as of today, OSM Wiki can store structured tag metadata similar to
> >>> Wikidata.  In every possible language, cross-linked, with images,
> >>> validation rules, or anything else the community decides to store
> >>> there. See examples:
> >>>
> >>> Key:bridge:movable:
> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
> >>>
> >>> Tag:bridge:movable=bascule:
> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q888
> >>>
> >>> I have imported most frequent Keys from the TagInfo, plus parsed
> >> wiki
> >>> pages to try to get multilingual descriptions, images, etc.  Our
> >> next
> >>> step is to add more descriptive properties, translations,
> >>> validations(?), better images. The structured data is accessible
> >> via
> >>> Lua (our new templating language), so at some point we may want to
> >>> replace info cards and tables(?) with the automatically generated
> >>> ones.
> >>>
> >>> Help is needed: our wiki is large and multilingual. If you can
> >> help,
> >>> especially if you can run a wiki bot to automate some data parsing
> >> and
> >>> wikibase item creation, please reply. When editing, please do not
> >>> change or translate the "label" field. Only use description field
> >> for
> >>> the translation efforts, add statements, etc. If you need new
> >>> properties, please write at
> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_talk:Wikibase
> >>>
> >>> Other fun links:
> >>>
> >>> Documentation:
> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap:Wikibase
> >>>
> >>> All items:
> >>>
> >>
> >
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=120
> >>>
> >>> Other bridge:movable tags:
> >>>
> >>
> >
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Item%3AQ104&namespace=120
> >>>
> >>> Reg-ex based validation rules:
> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q574#P13
> >>>
> >>> For many Key:* pages, you will now see a link on the left side
> >>> "OpenStreetMap Wiki item".
> >>>
> >>> P.S.  Big thank you goes to Tom Hughes for helping to launch this
> >>> project!
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >> --
> >> Peter Krauss
>
> --
> Peter Krauss
>
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