[OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

Stefano sabas88 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 09:38:27 UTC 2017


2017-10-25 11:06 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

> 2017-10-25 9:27 GMT+02:00 Safwat Halaby <swiftfast at gmx.com>:
>
>>
>> A Wikidata tag is just as verifiable as Wikipedia tag: Both require
>> visiting an external site. Y
>
>
>
> no, because wikipedia articles describe what they are about (or get
> deleted for lack of substance), wikidata objects often don't say what they
> are about (besides the name), they are just a bunch of links to wikipedia
> articles in different languages and not too rarely with different content
> (you have to decide which linked wikipedia article in which language
> defines the object).
>
> Nice argument!
https://xkcd.com/285/

Example
https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=60


> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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