On Tue, Mar 10, 2015, at 02:20 PM, Susanna Ånäs wrote: > A question brought up in this list > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005574.html. > > I am a keen supporter of the idea, or something along the lines, for > creating a historical gazetteer. Would anyone be willing to reply / > participate in the discussion? I lack the technical capacity to do so.
I have joined the wikidata list and may try to participate in the discussion. It is something that would be a very useful facility, outwith the historical context. A recent issue for DWG has been that of name translation / transliteration. It's clear that OSM is not the place to store hundreds of thousands of translated names; a dedicated wikidata instance could be an ideal exemplar. Note that licensing issues mean that data transport is one-way, e.g. it is not appropriate to copy from OSM into wikidata because the latter is CC0 licensed, but copying from wikidata into OSM is okay. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata
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