Hi Fred, Great question.
I feel that we should link to wikidata and this is a good example of why. There are lots of things that are in wikidata that are not suitable for OpenStreetMap tags but could be used by creative folk in a data & maps mashup. Looking at the entry for London [1] I see population over time, previous mayors, sister cities and even a list of notable people who were born there. It also has all the language names via it's links to wikipedia articles in each language. For the name:ru example do we know how these were added? Was it by just a few people? If so we could ask them if they'd be happy for their contribution to be added to wikidata under it's CC0 license. This could be a nice little way of promoting ties between wikidata and OSM and hopefully we'd both benefit from a few more contributors. Concerns include whether wikidata pages get removed if they are not deemed to be noteworthy enough. One solution would be work with wikidata to create a tool that queries OSM for use of a wikdata Q value before removing suspected non-noteworthy pages. My other concern is around licenses. We should not dictate that "this data is not for OpenStreetMap, please use wikidata" if the contributor prefers OSM's share alike and attribution license. Best regards, Rob [1] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84
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