On 4 May 2013 00:49, Claus Stadler <cstad...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Shouldn't OSM use Wikipedia URLs as UUIDs where applicable rather than > Wikipedia referring to database identifiers? (The answer is a clear 'yes' > from my side.) > In fact there are the (wikipedia, *) tags - but not sure how good the > quality is - what can be seen on a first glance is, that people mix URLs and > article names, and also encoding.
Wikipedia URLs are themselves potentially unstable, though - it's usually more or less okay for geographic places, since we tend to have fixed naming systems, but to pick a high-profile example, the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth has at various times over the past ten years pointed to Perth in Perthshire, Perth in Western Australia, and a placeholder disambiguator page. (They are also, of course, language-dependent, but that's another kettle of fish) Wikidata entities are (with a few caveats) static and language-independent (eg https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3183 ), and could potentially be useful here - but they're not human-readable and you'd have to rely on an API to convert them into page titles, which seems like it might not be desirable. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
