or has downtime? or deletes data/items used by OSM? or bans OSM mappers? or refuses to ban vandal/troll/harasser? or fails to ban them quickly?
Aug 9, 2020, 11:45 by james2...@gmail.com: > is there a contingency plan if wikipedia/wikimedia ceases to exist? > > On Sun., Aug. 9, 2020, 4:29 a.m. pangoSE, <> pang...@riseup.net> > wrote: > >> I suggest we create a roadmap for deprecating of storing and updating names >> in OSM for objects with a Wikidata tag. >> >> The rationale is explained here: >> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/19655 >> >> This of course affects the whole project and data consumers as well. Every >> OSM user will have to become a Wikidata user as well to edit the names or >> add name references (through the editors) >> >> Substantial changes will have to be made: >> * nominatim will need to support fetching names from wikidata somehow. It >> could probably be done on the fly. >> * >> openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org>>> will need to fetch from >> wikidata when displaying any object. >> * rendering the standard map will have to support fetching from wikidata. >> * all editors would have to fetch and enable editing of Wikidata objects. >> * maybe it no longer makes sense to have 2 separate logins? We should unify >> the logging in as much as possible. Ideas are welcome on how to do that. >> Perhaps retire signing up as OSM user on >> osm.org <http://osm.org>>> and >> ask users to create a Wikimedia account instead and log in with that? >> >> I personally don't see any problems connecting Wikimedia and OSM closer than >> the islands they are today. >> >> As mentioned in the ticket above data consumers like Mapbox already prefer >> Wikidata names. I'm guessing thats because they are simply better quality, >> better modeled, better referenced and better protected against vandalism. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Cheers >> pangoSE >> Ps I choose this list because this not only relates to tagging, but to the >> wider ecosystem._______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>
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