is there a contingency plan if wikipedia/wikimedia ceases to exist? On Sun., Aug. 9, 2020, 4:29 a.m. pangoSE, <[email protected]> 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 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 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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