AFAIK, one should use the main language of the area in which the feature is located. I think it is supposed to follow the language used to determine the name tag. So for the Belgian/Flemish town Antwerpen (Antwerp in English), you should use wikipedia=nl:Antwerpen (stad) This links to the Wikipedia page: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerpen_(stad) Wikipedia knows that the English page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp (perhaps by using Wikidata internally) This link and links to over a hundred other languages is found on the left
So either the data consumer or Wikipedia should be able to direct you immediately to the English page if your browser settings (or app settings) indicate that you prefer English over Dutch. I don't know whether Wikipedia actually does this. There is no need to add more than 100 Wikipedia links (the number of languages for which there is an article on Antwerpen) to OSM. This is a problem for Brussels, where OSM has no real preference for language. Should be point to the Dutch or French version? Note that people pointed out in the past that you can find linked Wikipedia articles with slightly different subjects in different languages. I am still not really happy with this, but hey, if this is what the majority wants, I'm not going to be a dissident. m. On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:45 PM <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > > How do I tag for this situation? > > How is 'the proper' language decided? > > Phil > > On Wednesday, 20 March 2019, Marc Gemis wrote: > > The reply that I got more than a year ago when the Mapbox team was > > doing a similar quest, was that the Wikipedia pages for multiple > > languages are linked and that the data consumer should display the > > page in the proper language. > > > > m. > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:53 AM <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > > > > > > How do you intend to deal with bi-lingual areas where having Wikipedia > > > links in both languages is an important cultural consideration? > > > > > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > > > > On Tuesday, 19 March 2019, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > > > > > > Mar 19, 2019, 3:10 PM by r...@technomancy.org: > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure why one would bother with this, but whatever. > > > > > > > > > It went as follows: > > > > > > > > - I made small prototype tool listing tourism attractions based on OSM > > > > data > > > > - during development I discovered massive amount of broken wikipedia > > > > and wikidata tags > > > > - due to scale and that problems were fixable by automatic edit I made > > > > a program for bot edits > > > > (library parts ended on > > > > https://github.com/matkoniecz/osm_bot_abstraction_layer > > > > <https://github.com/matkoniecz/osm_bot_abstraction_layer> and > > > > https://github.com/matkoniecz/wikibrain > > > > <https://github.com/matkoniecz/wikibrain> ) > > > > - I made bot edits that fixed tens of thousands objects in Poland > > > > - in most cases (except one depending on links to TERYT, official > > > > government dataset in Poland) > > > > scripts can be used in other regions > > > > - so now I am checking whatever I would be allowed to run this script > > > > in various places, > > > > including ones where some tagging issues are quite rare and would not > > > > justify > > > > writing and testing an OSM bot - but running existing one is IMHO a > > > > good idea > > > > > > > > > Are they any cases where there are more than wikipedia:XX tag, and > > > > > what will you do in that case? What will the wikipedia tag be? > > > > > > > > > In case of existing matching wikipedia tag - there is no problem and > > > > wikipedia:XX tags > > > > will be removed. > > > > > > > > Otherwise object will be skipped for a manual review. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Talk-ie mailing list > > > > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Sent from my Sailfish device > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Talk-ie mailing list > > > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ie mailing list > > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > > > > -- > Sent from my Sailfish device > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
