[OSM-talk] Adding Wikidata tags to 70k items automatically

[SomeoneElse]

On 27/08/2014 17:47, Edward Betts wrote:
> I'd like to annotate these 70k objects in OSM with a Wikidata tag
> automatically.
>

Perhaps it's worth explaining the benefits of having a link to a 
wikidata item on an OSM item?  When this was discussed previously

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2014-June/thread.html#16096

and

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-June/thread.html#70032

I think that it would be fair to describe the reaction as "somewhat 
sceptical" (both to the potential benefits of adding the tags at all, 
and around an automatic import of them).  Perhaps if someone could give 
a concrete example of what these tags could be used for once they're in 
OSM, it could help convince the doubters*?

Cheers,

Andy

* Personally, I'm actually fairly agnostic about the process of adding 
wikidata tags - I can't really see what I'd use them for myself, but am 
open to the possibility that someone could use them for something.  
However, an important part of things in OSM is surely that they are 
on-the-ground verifiable - wikipedia has articles for villages in the UK 
that don't exist, as do the OS OpenData StreetView maps, and people have 
added garbage data from both to OSM.  How do we know that the wikidata 
items for which links are added are accurate?