On 17 August 2014 19:45, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> What should we sue to link to Wikimedia commons categories like:
>>
>>    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_Paul,_Birmingham
>>
>> I've previously used Wikimedia_Commons=, but that's verbose; and I
>> seem to be alone in doing so.
>
>
> Wouldn't linking using the wikidata=* tag be better as the Wikidata entry
> for St Paul's Church in Birmingham should link to the appropriate page or
> category on Wikimedia Commons?
>
> So I would tag the OSM object representing St Paul's Church as
> wikidata=Q915614

That would be my preference, but there has been some resistance to
Wikidata tags, from people who prefer human-readable tag values; so I
tend to use one of each.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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