2013/2/27 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > > Still, why wikidata if > you can use wikipedia? > > Imagine a data consumer that wants to list all McDonalds in the World. If he would try to go by wikipedia tag, he should search for de:McDonald's, en:McDonalds, hak:Ma̍k-tông-lò Kûng-sṳ̂, hy:ՄաքԴոնալդս, ko:맥도날드 and who knows what else. He should also search for whole links, like https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s, because they are still allowed (Wikipedia map searches for them also). That is just not data friendly.
I agree it's possible, but the data consumer should go to wikidata, get all possible wikipedia links for a given article, and search for each of them in our database. I think that is more complicated then it should be. Janko
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