Yeah it's pretty "easy" to get wikidata data. Warning though; the data in Wikidata is not all CC0 licensed. You never know where the data came from they are not as strict about these things as OSM is.
lang=en; title=OpenStreetMap; bad_title=gracefully_handle_bad_input curl "www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&sites=${lang}wiki&titles=$title|$bad_title&props=labels&props=info&format=json"| perl -lpe 's/([{},])/$1\n/g' #curl "$lang.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=$title&prop=langlinks&format=json&lllimit=500"| # sed 's/}/}\n/g' On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:59 PM, bulwersator <bulwersa...@zoho.com> wrote: > > > ---- On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 06:31:18 -0800 Martin > Koppenhoefer<dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote ---- > > +1, it would be premature to switch completely to wikidata at this point, > and the human readable titles in the wikipedia tag have generally this > advantage over machine only cryptic ids > > cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > Maybe there is a simple way to obtain wikidata id of article X on wikipedia > Y? This would make unnecessary to introduce cryptic tags. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- /emj _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging