Hey, the question is now how we can merge coordinates from all languages to Wikidata. I would propose to use the coordinate from the longest article to have a good chance for using the most accurate one. Thats the way I use in Wikipedia-World[1]. After an update we could also use this database for an import.
Other solution could be a map where we show all coordinates of one article on a map and the user can select, but this would make a lot of work for 1.5 Mio coordinates.
Worst case would be that everyone use a bot and we would have a great bot-war.
Greetings Tim alias Kolossos
[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikiped...
Am 10.06.2013 20:50, schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
Heya folks :)
- Made first version of the geocoordinates datatype available \o/
This means that you will be able to enter the coordinates of a city for example as soon as someone created the necessary property for it. (There are a few waiting on http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal.) It's still a bit wonky so please do let me know about any issues you find. We're already aware of: ** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49385 - cardinal directions in geocoordinate datatype are not localized ** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49386 - apostrophe issue in geocoordinate UI ** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49387 - property parser function needs to support geocoordinate datatype