[OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

Certainly a tool to check and correct obviously broken or duplicate 
wikipedia=*, wikimedia_commons=*, wikidata=* links from the OSM map 
would be very useful.

However, I've met inconsistencies which could be noticed only by a 
knowledgeable human on the ground. For example, this coordinates 
correction 
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chapelle_Notre-Dame-des-Voirons_de_Bo%C3%ABge&diff=121789421&oldid=121556970> 
for the chapel Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Voirons de Boëge 
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapelle_Notre-Dame-des-Voirons_de_Bo%C3%ABge> 
. Before this correction it had wrong coordinates placing it erroneously 
on absolutely another mountain. I could correct it reliably only after 
actually visiting this chapel for making some photos for its article.

The comprehensive solution would be to have a dedicated Wikipedia layer 
on the OpenStreetMap. Now we have Standard, Cycle, Transport, and 
Humanitarian layers. Why not Wikipedia layer similar to this 
<http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/?lat=46.18824490036672&lng=6.177406311035156&zm=14&lang=en&ds=wiki&rd=10> 
, so that a user can select Wikipedia language and see the geo-markers 
corresponding to Wikipedia articles on the map. Or see clickable 
geo-markers corresponding to wikipedia=*, wikimedia_commons=*, 
wikidata=* tags.

This tool is using MediaWIki API and Overpass API, but for the OSM 
Wikipedia layer the data could be pre-calculated and synchronized 
periodically in order not to overload the APIs.

In fact, I am using the OSM map mostly with Wikipedia markers. For 
example, I was recently on a short holiday trip to Stockholm and the 
first thing I do I look what Wikipedia articles exist for the city 
<http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/?lat=59.324472209890146&lng=18.0710506439209&zm=16&lang=en&ds=wiki&rd=10> 
to select places to visit and to read about. So in my opinion, such a 
Wikipedia layer would be kind of synergy, - the creation of a whole that 
is greater than the simple sum of its parts.

Best regards,
Oleksiy

On 04.01.17 10:27, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
> Hi Yurik,
>
> Nice work.
> I'm interested in make such validation a service, to identify and fix 
> any inconsistencies between OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia/Wikidata.
> I'll be working on that on the next days.
>
> Regards,
>
> J. Gustavo
>
> Às 09:11 de 03-01-2017, Yuri Astrakhan escreveu:
>> I have been steadily cleaning up some (many) broken Wikipedia and
>> Wikidata tags, and would like to solicit some help :)
>>
>> To my knowledge, there is no site where one could add a set of OSM IDs
>> that need attention (something like a bug tracker lite, where one could
>> come and randomly pick a few IDs to fix), so I made a few tables:
>>
>> List of Wikipedia tags that do not resolve to Wikidata tags. Most of the
>> time, the WP tag is incorrect, sometimes it was deleted, and very rarely
>> there is no matching Wikidata item (needs to be created by hand).
>> * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yurik/OSM_NoWD
>>
>> List of duplicate Wikidata tags:
>> * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yurik/OSM_duplicates2
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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