Simon, My understanding is that this is only looking at a very small subset of wikidata (based on a list of wikipedia categories). As such an API would only give you a partial view (70k) objects. We want to match as much as possible and therefore people will continue adding wikidata tags to OSM manually. At which stage you end up with some wikidata tags in OSM, an API based on Edward's work, and no doubt lots of overlap and wasted effort.
In summary I'm not sure an API is a good strategy. Instead I support the proposed import. Regards, Rob P.s. I consider myself part of the UK local community and, without rereading the old thread, I felt there was some support and some against, with the topic fizzling out. Its clear that a locality check resolves some of the issues and I'm pleased to see this has been included. Thanks for pulling this together :-)
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