[OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 25. Oct 2017, at 08:43, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, certainly Wikipedia links should only be added by people who know
> something about the feature in question, and not by a machine that
> compares name tags to Wikipedia entries and takes a wild guess.


To illustrate this: we just had a case on the Italian mailing list where an armchair mapper has changed the wikidata link on a highway to a person after which the street is named from wikidata to wikidata:etymology . But he missed the fact that the street was named after a partisan fighter, not an actress with the same name (for whom was the wikidata object). 

cheers,
Martin