[Talk-lt] wikidata/wikipedia tags

[Simonas Kazlauskas]

Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-lt wrote:
>For now I am just asking what should be listed in
>https://matkoniecz.github.io/OSM-wikipedia-tag-validator-reports/
>and Lithuania-specific pages.
>
>I would make bot edit only in case that there would be a clear agreement
>that
>- (1) wikipedia and wikidata tags are useful to add when only one of
>the is present
>- (2) bot edits in Lithuania can be made by people not speaking
>local language
>- (3) this specific bot edits is welcome

A question worth asking is what purpose does a wikipedia relation serve, that isn’t already handled 
by the wikidata relation? In particular, my view is that:

1. End users will ~never interact with either tag directly, if they do inspect the information 
within these tags they’ll do so through some sort of a user interface (e.g. osm.org or some other 
map);
2. Interfaces should be able to resolve a wikidata reference to a wikipedia article(s) or other 
links on the fly and show those to the user directly.

And then, if editors do want to provide a reference to a Wikipedia page, they could add the 
reference to the wikidata KB instead, benefitting a broader ecosystem than just OSM? It is more 
work for an editor to add this data in the first place, sure. But the end result should be way more 
future-proof (AFAIK Wikipedia links aren’t stable), and thus possibly less overall effort in the 
long run.

Unless there is a genuine and convincing use-case for wikipedia tags, I would argue that linking to 
wikipedia is an antipattern in general. But also I’m just a casual contributor, so my opinion 
probably doesn’t count for much.

S.