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

[SomeoneElse]

On 28/05/2015 22:27, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:
> You can argue against machine-made non-reviewed translitterations,
> because they don't add anything that a data consumer couldn't and
> because they likely contain mistakes. But that's apparenlty not the
> case of the name:ru changeset that got reverted.

The source of the names in the reverted changeset is described in the 
changeset discussion http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/30451655 :

"to find russian names for places, I googled for English place names 
plus "достопримечательности", "погода" or some other russian word".

Cheers,

Andy