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wikipedia
Description
Provides a link to Wikipedia's article about the feature.
Group:
annotations
Website
URL pattern
Used on these
elements
See also
wikidata
=*
operator:wikipedia
=*
owner:wikipedia
=*
brand:wikipedia
=*
website
=*
url
=*
Status:
de facto
wikipedia
More details at tag
info
Tools for this tag
taginfo
AD
AT
BE
BR
BY
CH
CN
CZ
DE
DK
FI
FR
GB
GR
HU
IE (N+S)
IN
IR
IT
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LU
JP
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VN
overpass-turbo
QLever
Postpass via overpass-turbo
OSM Tag History
Use
wikipedia
language
page title
to provide a reference to an article in
Wikipedia
about the feature.
Contents
Using Wikipedia links
Examples
Secondary languages
Secondary Wikipedia links
Editor integration
5.1
iD
5.2
JOSM
Possible tagging mistakes
See also
External links
Using Wikipedia links
A Wikipedia link can be associated with any
OSM object
. Some helpful guidelines:
Only provide, in normal circumstances, a link to a single Wikipedia article, which should be to the article in the primary (local) language for the subject.
In some cases
, links to articles in non-local languages can be appropriate.
Always include a language prefix, e.g. 'en:St Paul's Cathedral', (
en:
for English, in that case) rather than assuming any particular language as with 'St Paul's Cathedral'.
Use the human readable title of the article, for example 'en:St Paul's Cathedral' rather than the version with underscores and
URL-encoded
characters that is used in the URL ('St_Paul%27s_Cathedral')
When you link to a section of a page, the spaces must be replaced by underscores.
wikipedia
language
page title#section_of_the_page
. Generally, do not do this; look for a redirect to that section whose full title matches the item you are linking from.
Only provide links to articles which are 'about the feature'. A link from St Paul's Cathedral in London to an article about St Paul's Cathedral on Wikipedia is fine. A link from a bus depot to the company that operates it is not (see section below).
Provide, for an extensive feature encompassing many individual ways, such as a long railway line or river, a single Wikipedia link from a relation covering the entire feature rather than attaching a link to every single way individually.
Avoid full URLs such as '
Avoid redirects, for example, link to
de:Frashër
and not to
de:Frasher
(which is a redirect).
Note that many objects have no matching Wikipedia article. For example, a typical supermarket has no Wikipedia page about it. There may, however, be an article about the company, which can be tagged using
brand:wikipedia
=*
Examples
The following examples show Wikipedia links in use; the data is used to create a link to the Wikipedia article in the appropriate language:
wikipedia
en:St Paul's Cathedral
369161987
369161987
wikipedia
fr:Musée du Louvre
7515426
7515426
Secondary languages
In almost all cases, a single
wikipedia
tag using the primary language for the subject, as described above, is sufficient
. Data users can access articles in other languages where available using Wikipedia's
interlanguage links
. If interlanguage links are missing, this should usually be fixed within Wikipedia (more specifically,
in Wikidata
).
One example where it is appropriate to provide additional explicit links to articles in secondary languages is when there is no existing article about the object in the local language. For example, for museums in France, French Wikipedia is preferred, but linking to the English article about the particular museum in France is OK if there is no matching article in French Wikipedia. In these circumstances, use the format
wikipedia:fr
'page title'
(e.g.
wikipedia:en
=*
) for the secondary languages.
Secondary Wikipedia links
See also
Secondary Wikidata links
and
Secondary Wikimedia Commons links
You may tag secondary attributes of the feature by preceding the
wikipedia
=*
key with the name of the attribute, separated by a colon (
).
The value of such a key would be the same as the normal
wikipedia
=*
key but referring to the appropriate Wikipedia page.
DESCRIPTION
TAG
EXAMPLE
Used for the artist of a feature, such as a sculpture or other public works. see
artist
=*
for more info.
artist:wikipedia
=*
artist:wikipedia
en:László Moholy-Nagy
Used for the architect (or architectural firm) of a building. see
architect
=*
for more info.
architect:wikipedia
=*
architect:wikipedia
en:Ustad Ahmad Lahori
Used for various stores or franchise brands. see
brand
=*
for more info.
brand:wikipedia
=*
brand:wikipedia
en:McDonald's
Used for what a feature is about, not what it is. Normally tagged on memorials, plaques, statues, etc.
For example: a
historic
memorial
commemorating a human should use this subkey to link to the Wikipedia article about said human, as the article is about subject of the memorial, not about the memorial itself.
subject:wikipedia
=*
subject:wikipedia
en:Helen Storrow
The tomb or burial site of a famous individual. The value should be an instance of a human (or possibly an instance of or subclass of an individual animal.
In many cases, tombs are treated as special type of memorial. used in conjunction with
subject:wikipedia
=*
buried:wikipedia
=*
buried:wikipedia
en:Marie Curie
Used for the of the operator of a feature. such as a transportation service or air port owner. see
operator
=*
for more info.
operator:wikipedia
=*
operator:wikipedia
en:Chicago Department of Aviation
Normally used for road/transportation network. see
network
=*
for more info.
network:wikipedia
=*
network:wikipedia
en:Amtrak
Used for trees plants/forests. see
species
=*
for more info.
species:wikipedia
=*
species:wikipedia
en:Conifer
Used for trees plants/forests. see
taxon
=*
for more info.
taxon:wikipedia
=*
taxon:wikipedia
en:Conifer
Link to the wikipedia page of the entity after which an element is named. For streets or other features named after people, other places, events, etc.
name:etymology:wikipedia
=*
name:etymology:wikipedia
en:Marie Curie
!Note:
this is not a exhaustive list of all *:wikipedia tags. For a list of all secondary attributes currently being tagged with this key,
see taginfo
In the past, the name of the attribute was put after the key (e.g.
wikipedia:operator
), but this was deprecated because it creates a conflict with the way
secondary languages
are linked.
It may be more useful to store certain data on Wikidata. For example, instead of using
name:etymology:wikipedia
=*
or
name:etymology:wikidata
=*
one may follow the Wikidata link from
wikidata
=*
and use data stored in
P138
property on Wikidata page of this object.
Occasionally, a feature may have one or more secondary links, but no primary link. For example, a memorial depicting a famous event may have only a secondary
subject:wikipedia
=*
link. Monuments, memorials, statues, and similar features should have
wikipedia
=*
only if they have their own Wikipedia article. The same applies to chain stores.
The same may be done with
wikidata
=*
— see
Key:wikidata#Secondary Wikidata links
Editor integration
iD
You can add or update the
wikipedia
key by pasting the full article url in the Wikipedia property. It also adds the
wikidata
=*
key. See this video for an example:
"Adding Wikidata to OpenStreetMap"
(note that you don't need to remove the previous
wikipedia
key)
JOSM
The
Wikipedia
plugin for
JOSM
displays geotagged Wikipedia articles or
wikidata items
in your area, allowing you to conveniently add them to OSM objects without spending time searching. Remember to
configure the plugin
to use the appropriate language.
Possible tagging mistakes
More details at tag
info
More details at tag
info
author:wikipedia=*
‒ Possibly intended
artist:wikipedia
=*
or
architect:wikipedia
=*
If you know
places with this tag
, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are
strongly discouraged
unless
you really know what you are doing
More details at tag
info
More details at tag
info
artist_name:wikipedia=*
‒ Possibly intended
artist:wikipedia
=*
If you know
places with this tag
, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are
strongly discouraged
unless
you really know what you are doing
See also
operator:wikipedia
=*
- Provides a link to Wikipedia's article about the operator of the feature
brand:wikipedia
=*
- Provides a link to Wikipedia's article about the brand of the feature
wikidata
=*
- to link the feature to Wikidata, in addition to Wikipedia (It's far from unusual to see Wikipedia articles renamed and consequently links to them rendered malfunctional. The associated Wikidata items are more stable)
wikimedia_commons
=*
- links to related Wikimedia Commons' media of the feature (syntax File:xxxxxx.xxx / Category:xxxxx)
WIWOSM
- uses
wikipedia
=*
to display vector map at Wikipedia sites using OSM data
website
=*
- for the URL of an official website for the feature
url
=*
- for the URL of reliable and relevant 3rd party websites.
owner:wikipedia
=*
A tool to set this key:
JOSM/Plugins/RemoteControl/Add-tags
Wikipedia Link Improvement Project
Collaboration with Wikipedia
- information about broader collaboration between OSM and Wikipedia
OSM-wikipedia-tag-validator-reports
- a page that lists OpenStreetMap objects that have wikipedia / wikidata tags with some problems (there's also a
MapRoulette
project version called
"fix broken Wikipedia tags"
).
External links
openstreetmap.pl/wp
- Visualization of linked Wikipedia articles
freemap.sk
- also shows Wikipedia articles as they are linked from OSM objects (ignores often imprecise location data at Wikipedia)
Retrieved from "
Categories
Key descriptions for group "annotations"
Key descriptions
Key descriptions with status "de facto"
Annotations
Tagging Mistakes
Wikipedia
Using-language-postfix
World wide external reference tag
Hidden categories:
Pages unavailable in Italian
Pages unavailable in Dutch
Item with no description in language FI
Item with no description in language NL
Item with no description in language ZH-HANT
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