Two remarks on the the discussion: - the standard point: adding translations of names to OSM is (naturally) nonsense, adding names commonly in use in a language for places isn't. I somehow suspect that Frederiks suggestion is actually an attempt to offload the dealing with the nonsense aspect to wikidata.
- while superficially the licence of wikidata is claimed to be CC0, the WMF does not actually warrant (warrant as in they would cover any costs and damages if there was trouble) that this is the case. Which is naturally a concern for OSM for content derived from third party sources (typically google). Matter of fact it is a bit of a circular argument because the licensing of CC0 is based on the WMF legal marketing statement that they believe facts are not copyrightable. However we know this is not necessarily correct (using copyright in a loose sense for any similar rights) for collections of facts. tl;dr version: linking to wikidata is probably ok, including wikidata could be a minefield. Simon
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