[OSM-talk] OSM ↔ Wikidata - new tool encouraging automated / mechanical addition of wikidata tags

[Mateusz Konieczny]

I used it with manual review of tagged objects and with verification of every match.

It is necessary as many matches are spurious/invalid (see bug reports at
https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata/issues ). 

Note that it is not criticism of the tool - some false positives will be always present.

Not sure what can be done on tool side. I would encourage reverting any edits 
of people who used this tool without real review of what is added, but not sure what more
can be done. Except https://github.com/EdwardBetts/osm-wikidata/issues/555 that
was just partially fixed (there is now "show all tags" tool)

Maybe remind in OSM Wiki page that blind adding without verification is not helpful at all?

Oct 8, 2020, 23:27 by joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com:

> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_↔_Wikidata <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_%E2%86%94_Wikidata>
>
> According to the new wiki entry, OSM ↔ Wikidata is a tool that is supposed to automatically find all wikidata entries for OpenStreetMap features in a certain area, and make it easy to add the tags semi-automatically.
>
> This seems like it will invite violations of the Automated Edits policy (> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits> )
>
> "OSM ↔ Wikidata (osm-wikidata-link) is a web based tool that can be used to semi-automatically add the Wikidata tag to an OpenStreetMap object. It is developed by  Edward Betts (Edward) (and others github contributors) in Python and web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS)." 
>
> "> This tool displays results in tabs:
> Match candidates: display the potential OSM objects matching Wikidata item
> This is the main tab. It allows user to match and add > wikidata <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata>> =*>  tags to OSM objects
> Already tagged: display the OSM object and his > wikidata <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata>> =*>  key
> No match: display Wikidata item without match in OSM
> This tab allows user to edit OSM and add the > wikidata <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata>> =*>  tag manually
> Wikidata query: display the Wikidata SPARQL query."
>
> What should we ask the developers to do so that this tool won't be encouraging every to violate the Automated Edits policy?
>
> - Joseph Eisenberg
>

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