Am 20.09.2017 um 15:02 schrieb Oleksiy Muzalyev: > I apologize for ignorance, but what is MB? I also did not understand > - what is more neutral? Adding the wikidata tag or wikipedia & > wikimedia tag? MB==Mapbox. For now retaining the WP link seems to be in our best interest as otherwise it requires a data consumer to use wikidata to get a useful reference to wikipedia (see for example the use in Nominatim as Sarah has pointed out). Naturally from a pure CS pov that is naturally unnecessary redundancy, but we have that all over the place.
Simon > > I noticed during disambiguation error corrections that some of these > errors appear when a Wikipedia article was renamed, but only in the > Wikipedia, and not in the OSM. Wikipedia articles are being renamed > quite often, for example when a town was renamed. > > As far as I know wikidata items are not renamed. Wikidata item tag is > only 7 characters, while wikipedia or wikimedia link could be dozens > of characters. So it takes less space in the database, it is easy to > export, etc. > > Best regards, > Oleksiy > > On 9/20/2017 2:31 PM, Simon Poole wrote: >> You raise an important point. >> >> I've commented before, years back in the mean time, on the push to move >> information out of OSM in to a third party product over which have no >> control and which, if we are not careful, could impact the value of what >> we in OSM are doing and distributing (just see MBs use of wikidata in >> lieu of OSM place names). It would further be very naive to not see the >> competitive angle of what is happening here. >> >> On the other hand lots of the wikidata related additions would seem to >> be fairly neutral (WD references additionally to WP links and so on). >> >> Simon >
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