[OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 28.05.2015 12:41, Mateusz Konieczny napisał(a):

> Further complicating such edits by moving it to Wikidata or somewhere
> else is in my opinion a bad idea.

We would rather retrieve it from Wikidata, because many places are 
already there! Nova Scotia? - you're welcome:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1952

With a editor completion you could have much more not going anywhere 
"outside":
- international name variations (including polish)
- direct link to a rich objects database (with a broad context relations 
- even outside the scope of a GIS if you need it)

Speaking of relations - there's even the link to OSM object already:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/390558

So what's the problem?

> It is also a bad idea to add thousands of names without a really good
> source and verification. Especially automated adding name:xx based on
> transliteration alone is a terrible idea that should be reverted once
> spotted - sometimes there is a separate name in foreign language, with
> difference going beyond transliteration.

The data in Wikimedia projects should be verifiable, so this would be 
just a double check. We can do it, sure, but why not to start with 
something rather than from zero?

> What may be done is to improve editor interface to do not display 100+
> name:xx tags for places like London.

It would be nice improvement indeed - Wikimedia services already hides 
most of interwiki links - but it has nothing to do with Wikidata as a 
helper for OSM objects names and categorization.

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