A lot of Wikidata was and is originally scraped from Wikipedia, but there are other ways to populate or update it (including manually). Consider for example https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_Kongelige_Danske_Musikkonservatorium. The subject was moved to a new building in 2008, but the coordinates in the article was still pointing to the old site until I discovered it in may this year (while editing OSM in the area). I solved the problem by manually copying updated coordinates from JOSM (ctrl-shift-c) to Wikidata and changing the article to use a template which pulls coordinates from Wikidata (for me this is much simpler than once again having to research the Wikipedia coordinates format). So now we have at least one case of danish wikipedia being "derived" from Wikidata :-) There are a number of other wikipedias (english, german etc.) on the same subject, which could be changed to use similar templates. So if in a number of years the subject was moved again, it would be very simple to again just update coordinates on Wikidata and have all the Wikipedias automatically reflect this.
Fredag den 26. august 2016 12:51:00 skrev Dave F: > I'm surprised Wikidata is different to Wikipedia. I thought the former > was derived from the latter. > (btw The 7,172,036 figure isn't the latest data in Wikidata) > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London > > Cheers > Dave F _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
