On 26 May 2015 at 00:35, moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/05/2015, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: >> "On 25 May 2015 at 22:18, moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> How do you link to a wikidata label in an OSM tag ? One that never >>> suffers from renaming ? As far as I know, we can/should only use >>> wikidata ids, which are stable but not user friendly. >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata > > I see nothing there that enables using a wikidata label in an OSM tag. > The only reference to labels is a javascript library that does the API > calls for you, which is a completely different usecase.
You don't "link to a Wikidata label", you link to a Wikidata item. >>> merges and splits on the wikipedia side ? >> >> New bridging items are created. > > Interesting. Where can I find examples and doc ? Ask on Wikidata's "Project chat". >>> Even in the best-case scenario, it >>> seems that an OSM wikidata tag can drift off-target following >>> reorganisations that are correct from a wikimedia POV but not from an >>> OSM POV. >> >> Example? > > An hypothetical example: I was asking for a real example. > a hotel that includes a restaurant. OSM uses > two objects from the begining, both linked to the single wikidata > article that talks about the hotel as a whole. OSM should only link the hotel item to the Wikipedia article. > The restaurant later > gets spun off as an independent business and get its own wikidata item > (either a split or a new one), but OSM still links to the "hotel as a > whole" wikidata item. This is no different to a new Wikipedia article being created. > Does wikidata have some tricks up its sleeve to reliably deal with > that kind of problem ? No. Does a highway system have a "trick up its sleeve" for when a new road is built, that OSM doesn't yet know about? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
