On 27/09/17 16:48, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 27 September 2017 at 16:06, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > >>> While it is not yet complete, in what way is Wikdiata failing to be >>> sufficiently reliable? >> >> Much of the work I did on wikipedia was stripped for all sorts of >> reasons. > > My question was about Wikidata's reliability, not yours ;-)
My experience of 'wikipedia' is bad and so that colours my thinking about using wikidata! I know many of us who used to be contributors are in the same boat ... >> critically I'd prefer to see the wikipedia pages containing a link to >> the wikidata entry! > > They do. Not on a number of articles I've recently been looking at while checking out the CURRENT wikidata offering. I've not found wikidata id's on the wikipedia articles I looked at ... but wikidata does seem something I should perhaps reassess. >>> That is exactly what Wikidata is for. >> >> But has yet to be formally adopted by OSM ... at which point the >> wikidata id becomes the OSM unique reference? > > I've not seen anyone advocate that. Personally I'd prefer to see an OSM id I can use as an alternative to wikidata ... with a few links to other datasources without relying on wikidata. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk