[OSM-talk] OSM Wikibase is now live

[Tobias Knerr]

On 23.09.2018 14:05, Michael Reichert wrote:
> Currently, the search of the wiki is not really useful any more.

Indeed, the search field is pretty much broken at the moment.

However, this has been brought up on the wiki talk page, and Yuri said
he was looking for a fix. So I think it's safe to say that this is not
intended behavior, at least.

> I suspect that the attempts for more structured metadata won't be really
> accepted by the community (the editors of the wiki).

As one of the more active editors of the wiki, I'm very hopeful for this
project. The current "solution" for this kind of data is to manually
copy templates across several pages. This is a massive pain point and
leads to pages unintentionally getting out of sync all the time.

Of course, it's still too early to say whether the idea will work out.
But I'm willing to help it succeed.