[OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

[Tobias Knerr]

On 06.05.2013 20:36, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> For those who are not on the tagging mailing list, the wikidata=* tag
> has been proposed[1], and discussed on the tagging mailing list starting
> late February 2013[2]. Based on my assessment of the discussion, there
> doesn't seem to be a clamor to add the wikidata=* tag to replace or even
> as an additional tag to the wikipedia=* tag. The concern is that
> wikipedia=* is much more easier for the average mapper to grasp than the
> wikidata=* tag.

I'm subscribed to tagging and aware of that discussion, but it was
mostly based on the assumption that one could always get the Wikidata ID
indirectly from an Wikipedia article name. That was certainly true back
then - during phase 1 of the Wikidata rollout it was merely a new way of
storing the links between different Wikipedia languages - and is still
essentially true today because the entries were overwhelmingly based on
existing Wikipedia content.

However, Wikidata's scope is becoming broader. It is intended to replace
list articles in Wikipedia and will therefore likely include things that
don't have a Wikipedia article on their own. Depending on how the
notability politics play out, it may even include items that don't
appear on Wikipedia at all.

Therefore, there may be a reason to have a wikidata key even if we
prefer wikipedia links where they exist.

Anyway, most of the thread back then wasn't even about an overlap with
the wikipedia key, but about the possibility of replacing/syncing keys
such as operator with a wikidata link, which is of course a lot more
controversial than the tag in itself.

Tobias

> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata
> [2]
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-February/013077.html