Hi, seeing that the matter is discussed quite intensively and opinions vary widely, could we perhaps agree to pause any (large scale) wikidata edits for a while until more members of our community have had a chance to form an opinion?
I mean it's fine for people to add some wikidata link to something they are editing but can we just hold off any any automated, semi-automated, query-driven, "challenge" driven edits for a while? OpenStreetMap is not, and never has been, in a hurry. Let us take the time to find out which level of wikidata integration we would like to see, and reach a consensus on this. I think that good points have been raised by many different people in the discussion and these deserve to be more widely heard, translated, discussed. I respect the work that Yuri has done on this and I see the potential of the linked query engine he has developed, but I think it would have been a better course of action to perfect wikidata linking in a small region, then demonstrate the usefulness and ask for buy-in from the community to go full planet. What we're seeing now is a chain of world-wide edits, then fixes, then other fixes, the development of a query engine that relies on tags added just a few days ago, all going on *while* this discussion is happening. Individual cases being brought up in the discussion quickly leading to another large-scale "fix" - it is really hard to follow. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
