W dniu 28.05.2015 12:41, Mateusz Konieczny napisał(a):
Further complicating such edits by moving it to Wikidata or somewhere
else is in my opinion a bad idea.
We would rather retrieve it from Wikidata, because many places are
already there! Nova Scotia? - you're welcome:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1952
With a editor completion you could have much more not going anywhere
"outside":
- international name variations (including polish)
- direct link to a rich objects database (with a broad context relations
- even outside the scope of a GIS if you need it)
Speaking of relations - there's even the link to OSM object already:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/390558
So what's the problem?
It is also a bad idea to add thousands of names without a really good
source and verification. Especially automated adding name:xx based on
transliteration alone is a terrible idea that should be reverted once
spotted - sometimes there is a separate name in foreign language, with
difference going beyond transliteration.
The data in Wikimedia projects should be verifiable, so this would be
just a double check. We can do it, sure, but why not to start with
something rather than from zero?
What may be done is to improve editor interface to do not display 100+
name:xx tags for places like London.
It would be nice improvement indeed - Wikimedia services already hides
most of interwiki links - but it has nothing to do with Wikidata as a
helper for OSM objects names and categorization.
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