Proposal talk:External links

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The purpose of storing the Wikipedia link is so people can access it's wikipedia page, likewise the website tag, making it easier for people to access information about the place. There's lot more metadata about places we Could store that would add value to the data, too much perhaps to store in the OSM database direct. What about starting to consider a seperate database to store metadata about places, and a unique place identifier linking the place to its data?... (Wondering what will come out of the openguides talks) --Rickm 01:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


The Wiki syntax makes it difficult for me to understand what is proposed for the wikipedia feature. The key is to be "wikipedia", but what is the value?

"Tower of London" ?
"Tower_of_London" ?
"[[wikipedia:Tower of London|London]]" ?

--- Lorp 12:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Definitely not the last one. Probably the first one? Ojw 13:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)