[OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

On 04.01.2017 20:04, Yves wrote:
> This all conversation confort my (un-educated, I confess) idea of the 
> uselessness of cross referencing the Wikipedia ecosystem with OSM with 
> OSM tags.
>
> Automated addition of wikidata id to OSM objects seems worthy, so why 
> not doing it on the fly instead of writing it to the database? Next 
> year maybe?
>
> Also, I always wondered what it supposed to happen when an OSM 
> contributor who like me does not give a damn of an external ID when 
> he/she edits an OSM element?
> Yves 

Sometimes a Wikipedia article does not have coordinates. For example the 
article about the STMicroelectronics SA 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STMicroelectronics> as it is a big 
company with many locations. However, we can add to its headquarters 
building a clickable Wikidata tag and an image tag:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/109964315

There other similar case, - no wikipedia article, no wikidata page, but 
there is a Wikimedia commons category; for example La Givrine train station:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/249463533

Unfortunately, wikimedia_commons is not yet clickable on the OSM map. 
Here is a clickable link to this category: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:La_Givrine_train_station

If you are to travel to/from this train station in mountains, you can 
learn a lot of practical useful information from the Wikimedia category 
images: that there is a heated waiting hall at the station, a ticketing 
machine, etc.

Oleksiy



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