On 27/09/17 19:46, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Lester, first and foremost, Wikidata is a system to connect the same > Wikipedia articles in different languages. The "read this article in > another language" links on the left side comes from Wikidata. Wikidata > has developed beyond this initial goal, but it remains the only way to > identify Wikipedia articles in a language-neutral way, even if a > specific Wikipedia article is renamed or deleted.
That formed no part of the early discussions on how wikidata should work? I bowed out when the discussions were going down a path I did not find to be at all useful. The current offering is certainly a lot more 'organised' than those original discussions. I WOULD still like to see a storage model that allows third party lists to be managed and cross referenced, but that does not fit the wikidata model. It is why I think 'another' cross-reference tool may be more appropriate with OSM and wikipedia/wikidata simply being sources. THAT requires OSM to have a 'unique id' one can use to cross reference though :( -- 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
