[Talk-lt] wikidata/wikipedia tags

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Nov 14, 2022, 09:12 by tomasstraupis at gmail.com:

> 2022-11-14, pr, 01:27 Simonas Kazlauskas via Talk-lt rašė:
>
>> 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:
>>
>
> All our local (Lithuanian) services (user oriented as well as data
> checking) use exclusively wikipedia tag and do not use wikidata tag.
> Wikipedia tag is human readable, easy convertible to actual url
> therefore more users can check/update/fill that tag.
>
>  When checking data I only check wikipedia tag and ignore wikidata.
>
>  Wikidata KB is too geeky, it is not presentable to average user.
>
And in terms of benefits of wikidata tags - they are more stable 
and makes easier to fix broken wikipedia tags.

For example, thanks to them it was possible to partially automate
recovery of wikipedia links after Wikipedia editors decided to
move bunch of articles without leaving redirects.

See
https://matkoniecz.github.io/OSM-wikipedia-tag-validator-reports/Lietuva%20(Lithuania%20-%20Litwa)%20-%20obvious.html#wikipedia%20wikidata%20mismatch%20-%20follow%20wikipedia%20redirect
for cases where such repair is possible in Lithuania as both
wikipedia and wikidata are tagged, so fixes can be applied
automatically
(I see that renaming stubs about villages is liked also by
authors of your Wikipedia, at least they left redirects)
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