[OSM-talk] OSM Wikibase is now live

Tobias Knerr osm at tobias-knerr.de
Sun Sep 23 21:03:23 UTC 2018


On 23.09.2018 17:07, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> If you'd now impose 
> technical constraints preventing mappers from documenting things that 
> do not match a certain ideal of structure would you would effectively 
> make the wiki unsuitable for its primary application and mappers would 
> need to set up a new place to document their tags.

The content stored in Wikibase is editable by wiki users using a regular
wiki account, same as with other wiki pages.

Ultimately, this is simply a different implementation of the infoboxes
that already exist on the wiki's key and tag pages. An implementation
that will be easier to maintain and easier to parse for projects like
Taginfo (which already parses today's infoboxes, but has to jump through
a lot of hoops to do so). But it isn't any more restrictive than filling
in the parameters of today's infobox.



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