[OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

Kolossos tim.alder at s2002.tu-chemnitz.de
Sun May 5 12:55:02 UTC 2013


Hello Andreas,
to c)
I don't like to support different reference systems in WIWOSM. Each 
country has it's own for monuments and than somebody starts with 
vulcanos or brigdes.... We would have to update WIWOSM each week without 
the generic system we have now.

Greetings Tim



Am 05.05.2013 11:26, schrieb Andreas Labres:
> Tim,
>
> There are different problems, let's keep them separate (vielleicht reden wir
> auch - Englisch - aneinander vorbei... ;)
>
> a) There is a problem in the code of osm.org how it links wikipedia articles.
> You can't do a link like this:
>
>      $PATH#anchor?uselang=en
>
>     This is bad URL syntax. You (osm.org) have to do
>
>     $PATH?uselang=en#anchor
>
>     https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4802
>
> b) It is "not a good idea" to link objects in Wikipedia lists like
>
>      Liste der denkmalgeschützten Objekte in Wien/Penzing#objektid-25026
>
>     This object should have its own "name" in Wikipedia, which then redirects to
> whereever this object can be found. This shouldn't be "external" but a feature
> in Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikiwhatsoever.
>
> c) The objectID I'm referencing is nothing "external", it's a nationally unique
> ID given by the Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt which identifies each "monument" in
> Austria. Therefore it's the best idea to use /this/ as /the/ reference to the
> given object (with reference to it being a historic monument). Alex Wagner, who
> created all the "Denkmalgeschützte Objekte" in Austria in the Wikipedia used it
> when he created the Wikipedia pages.
>
>     http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-at/2013-April/005542.html  ff
>
> OSM could save this objectID, say:
>
>     ref:monument=AT:25026
>
> and WIWOSM then knows how to find this (uniquely identified) object in Wikipedia.
>
> /al
>





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