[OSM-talk] OSM Wikibase is now live

[Dave F]

Hi

If I type 'bridge' into the wiki search & press return it loads the 
Key:bridge
However if I type it & select the top response in the popdown it takes 
me to Q103, which AFAICS is of no help to anyone, least of all newcomers 
who are most likely to use the wiki.

1) Why the difference in selection?
2) What benefits do your actions bring to OSM contributors?

Cheers
DaveF

On 18/09/2018 10:30, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> Osmaritans,
>
> as of today, OSM Wiki can store structured tag metadata similar to 
> Wikidata.  In every possible language, cross-linked, with images, 
> validation rules, or anything else the community decides to store 
> there. See examples:
>
> Key:bridge:movable: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
> Tag:bridge:movable=bascule: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q888
>
> I have imported most frequent Keys from the TagInfo, plus parsed wiki 
> pages to try to get multilingual descriptions, images, etc.  Our next 
> step is to add more descriptive properties, translations, 
> validations(?), better images. The structured data is accessible via 
> Lua (our new templating language), so at some point we may want to 
> replace info cards and tables(?) with the automatically generated ones.
>
> Help is needed: our wiki is large and multilingual. If you can help, 
> especially if you can run a wiki bot to automate some data parsing and 
> wikibase item creation, please reply. When editing, please do not 
> change or translate the "label" field. Only use description field for 
> the translation efforts, add statements, etc. If you need new 
> properties, please write at 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_talk:Wikibase
>
> Other fun links:
>
> Documentation: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap:Wikibase
> All items: 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=120
> Other bridge:movable tags: 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Item%3AQ104&namespace=120
>
> Reg-ex based validation rules: 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q574#P13
>
> For many Key:* pages, you will now see a link on the left side 
> "OpenStreetMap Wiki item".
>
> P.S.  Big thank you goes to Tom Hughes for helping to launch this project!
>
>
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