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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-09-01 13:50 GMT+02:00 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:

> The question
> now is if your wikidata entry is about the settlement or its
> administrative boundary or both...
>


The wikidata entry states it is the former (instance of
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972 aka human settlement) but somehow
there is also an administrative reference in the description ("a village
and a former municipality").

For the containing "Arendsee" it is clear, the wikidata object refers to
the "Gemeinde" (administrative entity, municipality) and there seems to be
no wikidata entity for the homonymous settlement:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q490960
Interestingly in this particular article, the German Wikipedia mentions 2
other Arendsees: Ortschaft and Ortsteil Arendsee.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arendsee_%28Altmark%29#Gemeindegliederung
"Arendsee mit den OT Arendsee, Genzien und Gestien"

If the name had been different from the municipality (like "Binde" in the
same municipality), these administrative entities would probably have
gotten their own wikipedia page (and wikidata object):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binde_%28Altmark%29   (again dealing with
both, administrative and geographic entities)
In this case, the wikidata object describes a "geographical object" (likely
a placeholder classfication): http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q586157

My guess is that in the case of settlements we will mostly have missing
wikidata entities for either the settlement or the administrative entities,
because the wikidata objects have been created from wikipedia articles
which typically don't distinguish between the settlement and the
administrative entity but rather do cover both. It is also likely that the
focus of wikipedia articles is on administrative entities, because of the
requirement to "prove" with citations (ideally formal legislational acts)
what you enter.

Cheers,
Martin

___
Btw., there is a small typo in your mail, the Name is "Kleinau" (~small
floodplain) which is a more probable name than "Keinau" (~not a floodplain)
;-)
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