On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> On 06.05.2013 18:54, Peter Wendorff wrote: > > Do they have something like a persistent ID in wikidata, yet? > > I think the Wikidata page title - something like Q35525 - is intended to > be rather stable. Of course there are sometimes problems, such as > duplicates or interwiki conflicts, that make it necessary to change > items. But unlike unlike OSM, Wikidata actually cares about providing an > ID for a distinct semantic entity. > > In my opinion, this is a major reason to link to Wikidata using OSM > tags, and not the other way round. (Improving our data model in that > regard doesn't seem realistic in the short term.) > For those who are not on the tagging mailing list, the wikidata=* tag has been proposed[1], and discussed on the tagging mailing list starting late February 2013[2]. Based on my assessment of the discussion, there doesn't seem to be a clamor to add the wikidata=* tag to replace or even as an additional tag to the wikipedia=* tag. The concern is that wikipedia=* is much more easier for the average mapper to grasp than the wikidata=* tag. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata [2] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2013-February/013077.html
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