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==Project idea==

Create a Wikidata-like new editor for OpenStreetMap (OSM) using a MediaWiki + Wikibase install

===What is the problem you're trying to solve?===

Increase content on OpenStreetMap (we can reuse that), test Wikidata to 100x60x scale, spread Wikibase to other projects.

===What is your solution?===

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Currently Wikidata hosts more thenthan 43M statements<ref name="wikidata-stats">[https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php Wikidata stats] on WMFlabs by Magnus</ref>. On the other hand OpenStreetMap has 2.7 billion objects (''nodes'', ''ways'' and ''relations'') in it<ref name="osm-stats">2.5 billion of which are points, see [http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html OSM data stats]</ref>. Every object isin OpenStreetMap has some [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features features] which are expressed using key-value pairs, for example to say that [http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1834818http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1834818 this relation] is named "Colosseum" you have to add to it the following data: <code>''name''=''Colosseo''</code>. Analogously Wikidata uses [[:wikidata:Wikidata:Glossary#Entities.2C_items.2C_properties_and_queries|properties and values]] to enrich its items.

The idea is to use a MediaWiki + Wikibase install to build a tag editor for OpenStreetMap.

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The benefits of such an endeavour are:

* Providing a tool to the community of OSM, a free/libre/open project whose data are going to be used in Wikimedia projects. (<ref>This is aligned with the Wikimedia Foundation annual plan<ref>, see the [[Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form#Staff_and_long-term_contractors|Wikimedia_Foundation Proposal form to the FDC round 2 2013/2014]]</ref> and to the subsequent job opening for two map/geo engineers<ref>[https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/64421/software-engineer-maps-geo-wikimedia-foundation two map/geo engineers]</ref>. It should be noted also that MediaWiki + Wikibase has a stronger multilingual support that could greatly benefit OSM (official key, value tags in OSM are in English);

* OSM will benefit from the improvements made to Wikibase (e.g. RDF export), using a MediaWiki install a new pool of developers (which is today familiar with wikis) can start collaborating with OpenStreetMap;

* Increase collaboration among the two project using the well-known interface of MediaWiki+Wikibase;

* Increasing reuse of MediaWiki and Wikibase softwares, and developing another big project where itthey isare in use thus strengthening their ecosystem;

* Testing Wikibase to a scale of 40x60x its current size;

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To do so we need a system that:

* can synchronize with OSM databases (both in read and write)

* allows to login using OSM Oauth or [[:mediawikiwiki:Help:OAuth|Wikimedia Oauth]]

OpenStreetMap already offer the [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm/diffs minutely diffs] that can be used to keep up to the a copy of the OSM databasesdatabase.

To get to this point we need to:

* extend the functionality of Wikibase such that it is possible to say item with different label other than Qxxx (to get Nxxx, Wxxx, Rxxx)

* develop a MediaWiki extension to use OpenStreetMap login on a MediaWiki install (see for reference [[:mediawikimediawikiwiki:Extension:TwitterLogin|Extension:TwitterLogin]])

==Get Involved==

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===Participants===

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* --[[User:CristianCantoro|CristianCantoro]] ([[User talk:CristianCantoro|talk]]) 09:10, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

===Endorsements===

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# I'm not a developer so I can help in translation, in using the platform, spreading the news, and so on <small style="background:#f00;">'''★&nbsp;[[User:Airon90|<span style="color:#000;">→ A</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Airon90|<span style="color:#f00;background:#000;">ir</span>]][[User talk:Airon90|<span style="color:#000;">on&#32;90</span>]]'''</small> 13:20, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

# Definitely a wonderful idea. It would be awesome to make OSM data to be more reusable on Wikidata - and viceversa. Moreover, I think that such editor could help a lot the further development of Wikivoyage (an old and OT thought of mine). --[[User:Sannita|Sannita]] - <small>''[[User talk:Sannita|not just another it.wiki sysop]]''</small> 13:21, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

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