> > people fixing WD won’t necessarily check if their fixes work well with > OSM. Maybe we should include versions in our WD tags? > I’ve seen OSM objects linked from WD, are there people monitoring changes > to linked objects? > Yes, that's what the Wikidata+OSM service is for. It allows community to create queries that verify various aspects of OSM objects as related to Wikidata Objects. For example, if Wikidata object changes its "instance-of" to disambig, the query would immediatelly flag corresponding OSM object as having a problematic wiki link.
> > I think it’s better to add the WD links slowly, verifying on a one by one > basis that the objects describe the same thing. And having this done for > some time I can tell that quite often WD items are very basic and defined > besides their name only by the content of their WP article links, which in > different languages not always describe the same thing/s. > If you look into the things there’s a lot to fix in both projects, adding > WD tags automatically in one go might help less than people doing it > carefully and fixing the problems on the way. > > iD editor has been doing exactly that for substantial time. Whenever user adds a wikipedia tag, corresponding Wikidata tag is added automatically. I seriously doubt there are any (or any at all) people who check that wikidata ID is correct by hand. Yet the number of errors that were caught by cross-linking the data is very significant.
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