[OSM-talk] OSM Wikibase is now live

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Mateusz, I think we have a chance of success this time because unlike other
rulesets that are stored in the specific project's GIT repos, this project
is
* wiki based and centralized, just like the tag documentation, and
accessible to a much wider community.  In the last week, we had 18 users
making nearly 900 changes (in addition to the original bot import)
* offers tag documentation to the tools, not just rules, so they are more
likely to integrate with it even without the rules, and then switchover
* does not hardcode any structure of the rules - in a way it is "free form"
- allowing incremental growth.

This said, we should take it one step at a time.  First start using it as a
primary key/value multilingual description store and update wiki templates.
Migrate existing tools like TagInfo. Remove duplicate data from template
parameters.

Afterwards, we could expand the scope -- see if we can store validation
rules, presets, etc. for other tools, how complex can we get them, and many
other fun things...

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:03 AM Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com>
wrote:

>
> Part of Wikibase that are an attempt to create yet another preset and
> validator ruleset
> are probably not going to be used by anybody.
>
> Note that so far every editor creates its own (iD, Vespucci, JOSM...).
>
> 23. Sep 2018 14:05 by osm-ml at michreichert.de:
>
> TBH, if I were an editor developer, I would neither take regular
> expressions for validation rules nor all my presets from the wiki. The
> wiki can be edited by everyone. There are a lot people whose hobby is to
> edit the wiki to make it represent how they expect OSM and the usage of
> tags to be [1].
>
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