On 4 May 2013, at 10:47, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> 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) Being language dependant isn't as issue as you simply state the language of the article name used, and then through interwiki links can link to the appropriate article in any wikipedia language. Shaun > > 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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
