Martin, while it is fascinating to learn about Aldi, its history, and possible ways to organize information about it, isn't it a moot point for our discussion? We are talking about Wikipedia, and how we link to it. There is only one Aldi Wikipedia article that can be connected to:
* German https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage?itemid= Q125054&site=dewiki * English https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage?itemid= Q125054&site=enwiki This is the current behavior of the iD editor: you type in Wikipedia page, and it automatically updates Wikidata ID, storing both values. If you think this is incorrect, please start a discussion, and we may want to change that. But this has been the automatic software behavior for a long time. Most iD users would not even know that they have updated Wikidata tag, so lets not treat "wikidata" as some magical unicorn that links to something bigger and better - it is simply a link to Wikipedia. It is really up to the software to generate a proper link to Wikipedia. It could be generated just like I showed above, or by transforming wikipedia tag, hoping that the page is still the same. In either case, you only get a link. On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > On 2. Oct 2017, at 20:36, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > > and Andy Mabbett from England editing supermarkets in > Germany. > > > > indeed it’s not helping the quality if editors are not familiar with the > language specifics for the area of the things they edit (this is true for > all UGC, be it osm, wikidata, etc). Aldi Sud does not make sense, it’s > either Süd or, if you really have to (e.g. domain names), Sued. > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41171672 > > This kind of fiddling leads to objects like this: https://www.wikidata. > org/wiki/Q125054 > inception 1913 > founded by Karl and Theo Albrecht, born 1920 and 1922. > Founded 7/9 years before their birth? > > It is also not true that aldi nord and süd result or follow from the > splitting of Aldi, they result from the split of Albrecht KG. Not even the > founding year 1960 for the parts is correct, it’s 1961 (according to wp and > company website) > > It also still claims Aldi is a GmbH & Co. KG and even has 1 reference for > this (german wikipedia), while the German wikipedia actually has a long > paragraph trying to explain the structure and saying there are 66 different > regional GmbH & Co. KG, plus other companies like the > ALDI Einkauf GmbH & Co. oHG or the *ALDI SÜD > Dienstleistungs-GmbH & Co. oHG*, i.e. it’s a group of companies, a > concern. > Here’s a list of parts of Aldi Süd: > https://unternehmen.aldi-sued.de/de/impressum/ > > It can all be fixed of course, but I’m curious how all these errors have > gotten there. There’s still more wrong than correct in this object. > > cheers, > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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