On 25/05/2015, Guillaume Allegre <allegre.guilla...@free.fr> wrote: >> I already replied that I wonder what's the idea behind that enforcement. >> Why wouldn't Wikidata be used "also" rather than "instead"? Is it >> really a goal of OSM insisting to destroy Wikipedia? > > Wikidata has one more advantage : sometimes, Wikipedia pages are renamed > (bad initial convention, or real-life renaming, or whatever), whereas > Wikidata items identifiers (Q...), are persistent for unique "concepts".
I don't think that anybody claimed that wikidata tags were not desirable, nor a superset of wikipedia tags. The objections are about the idea that the wikipedia tag should be "deprecated" in favor of the wikidata tag : * wikipedia names are friendlyer to mappers, and generally more well-known * wikidata objects don't necessarily exist for all wikipedia articles we want to use * For data consumers wanting to show the wikipedia article (by far the most common usecase), using the wikipedia tag is much more straightforward than using the wikidata tag (leaving the language and renames issues to more meticulous data consumers). So. I'm quite happy with the status quo, having both wikipedia and wikidata tags in OSM. I'm sure there's a QA tool somewhere that can point ou discrepancy between the two tags, if need be. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
