[OSM-talk] usefulness of brand:wikipedia and brand:wikidata tags (was Re: Bank of India (and other) Wikidata tags)
Andy Mabbett
andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Thu Apr 18 13:12:46 UTC 2019
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 09:28, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> The general mindset of the Wikidata adherent is
At what point did we appoint you our spokesman?
> that every
> machine-readable link between obejcts or concepts improves the overall
> quality and usefulness of the data set, whether or not a concrete use
> case exists at this point in time or not.
There is always a concrete use case.
> However, the ferocity and scope with which Wikidata links are forced on
> us
"forced"?
> are a concern for me.
> We end up with tons of extra tags that add zero
> extra information and complicate the world for mappers.
There are zero Wikidata tags that add zero information
> And I'm not even talking about our own wiki where they've started to
> wikidatify our tags as well.
That's no more true than saying wiki.openstreetmap.org is "Wikipediafied".
You're confusing the use of Wikibase software with Wikidata.
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Andy Mabbett
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