On Wednesday 08 August 2018, peterkrauss wrote: > > > has been an important point of > > critique of the whole 'adding wikidata IDs to OSM' movement. You > > can read this up in the previous discussion here and in talk. > > Can you send the main links?
No, i can't. There is a large number of discussions on the topic of adding Wikidata IDs in OSM (which is significantly less invasive than this attempt to shape OSMs data model to the needs of Wikidata) in several channels and i did not keep track of all of them. You can find quite a bit of discussion by searching for subjects containing 'wikidata' in talk in the second half of 2017. Most of this was ultimately non-productive because the Wikidata supporters in the discussion did not make any serious attemts to actually take into account the fundamental critique of their intentions. In most cases the discussion progressed in a similar way as here with Wikidata proponents being firmly set in their world view and having no perception of the fundamental differences between that and the way OSM handles things and as a result attempting to bulldoze over OSM with euphemisms like "pragmatical view". If any Wikidata fan really wants to engage in a productive and balanced discussion on the interrelationship between the projects you would need to approach this on a very basic level and accept that none of the fundamental assumptions Wikidata is founded on is necessarily shared by OSM. And as Martin Koppenhoefer said - if you ignore these things you only have two options: Trying to forcefully change OSM to adjust to the Wikidata world view or adjusting Wikidata to adopt OSMs views. Even if one of those options seems feasible (which i would not necessarily disagree with) it would be an act of imperialism with all the consequences this usually brings with it. > PS: ideal is to summarize a list of topics and its "agreement vs > under-discussion" status... > something like > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata/Critical_topics I would strongly suggest you do not try to imply that what you state there represents an agreement of any kind. What you have written there seems to indicate a lack of understanding of how OSM works and therefore seems to form an attempt to impose working principles you find desirable onto OSM. Don't do that. If you want to create such a wiki page to describe your subjective perception of the situation that is fine - but you should indicate it as such. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
