On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:33 PM, moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 28/05/2015, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another issue that can be seen here: nobody will want this "Puente Nuevo > > (París)" as a label for a bridge on a map (París) > > Funny ah? Every single entity in wikidata I have looked at had some issues > > in one or the other way, I believe we would get more problems than we would > > solve. > > The issue here is that these strings are the name of the wikipedia > article in various language, which is *not* the same as the name of > the location in various languages. Wikipedia likes to add some > disambiguation text, which we do not want in OSM.
Note: For many Wikidata items, there are 2 lists: a list of links to various language Wikipedia articles (this powers the interwiki links in Wikipedia), and a list of name translations. These two lists do not correspond exactly because the Wikipedia article title may often have a disambiguating string. For example: The city of Paris in Texas, USA: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q830149 (JSON version, so you can see the translations: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q830149.json ) The English label for this Wikidata item is "Paris", while the English Wikipedia article title is "Paris, Texas".
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