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

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Aug 31, 2014 4:53 PM, "Fabio Alessandro Locati" <fabiolocati at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Also, I would add that Wikidata is different from many (or all) other
databases since:
> 1. it can give REAL value to OSM users (while most dbs don't)
> 2. It's philosophically close to OSM (while most dbs aren't)

+1. We already link to Wikipedia using the wikipedia=* tag. I really can't
see how wikidata=* is any different.

Linking to Wikidata actually provides more value than merely linking to
Wikipedia as it provides additional data, *including* links to all language
Wikipedias where the object has an article.
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