On 28 May 2015 at 13:33, 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. Wikidata labels do not include that disambiguation (some exceptions may be found, but they are user errors,and are being weeded out). >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84 >> >> You can see its names in various languages by clicking the "Labels >> list" tab (then note slidebar) > > Call me stupid, but I don't see any clickable label list tab ? Sorry; you won't see it if you're not logged in. You'd need to log in and enable this gadget: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Gadgets#LabelLister I'll ask if there's a method for non-logged-in users to see them. > The > closest thing I see is the list of wikipedia articles, which has the > problem mentioned above. Those are not the labels -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
