[OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/5/6 Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org>:
> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:14:30PM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>> Some notes:
>> There's already the wikipedia=NAME tag (wikipedia=LA:NAME for
>> non-english wikipedias, where LA=en,de...) in use in some places, so
>> I'd recommend using that.
>
> Shouldn't that be
>
>    wikipedia:LA=NAME
>
> ?

I think wikipedia=XX:NAME was choosen because the other way you can
add many wikipedia:XX= tags and the parsers will not have a single tag
name to look at, also this would duplicate wikipedia's own mechanism
for linking to different language pages (and what if the translation
in OSM is inconsistent wikipedia's own?).  By linking to only one
wikipedia article in any language, you actually link to a whole group
of articles in all wikipedias that are connected with their
"interlinks".  I don't remember whether this was discussed here or on
IRC.

Cheers