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wikidata
Description
The ID of the Wikidata item about the feature.
Group:
annotations
Website
www.wikidata.org
URL pattern
Used on these
elements
See also
wikipedia
=*
wikimedia_commons
=*
operator:wikidata
=*
owner:wikidata
=*
brand:wikidata
=*
Status:
de facto
wikidata
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
LI
LU
JP
KP
KR
NL
NO
PL
PT
RU
ES
AR
MX
CO
BO
CL
EC
PY
PE
UY
VE
TW
UA
US
VN
overpass-turbo
QLever
Postpass via overpass-turbo
OSM Tag History
The ID of the
Wikidata
item about the feature (for example,
Q9141
represents the
Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
). Like
wikipedia
=*
only entries which are 'about the feature' should be linked. A link from St Paul's Cathedral in London to an entry about St Paul's Cathedral is fine. A link from a bus depot to the company that operates should use
operator:wikidata
=*
instead, link from monument to event that is memorialized should use
subject:wikidata
=*
instead.
For entries with both
wikipedia
=*
and
wikidata
=*
these links should be equivalent, except if Wikidata has a more precise entry, which corresponds better to the OSM object than the Wikipedia article does. In that case the relation between both (The Wikidata entry and its
parent
wikidata entry, connected to the WP entry) should be described on Wikidata, through a
part of
or
capital of
property. Usually there should not be more than one Openstreetmap item with the same Wikidata ID, but in some cases it will be valid mapping.
See:
Proposed features/Wikidata
Contents
Semi-automatically finding wikidata IDs
Finding a Wikidata ID
2.1
Wikidata Search
2.2
Wikipedia search
2.3
Editor integration
2.3.1
iD
2.3.2
JOSM
Adding missing items to Wikidata
Display
Secondary Wikidata links
What not to tag
Bugs and workarounds
See also
Semi-automatically finding wikidata IDs
OWL Map
Finding a Wikidata ID
In order to add a Wikidata tag, you first have to find the item ID. An ID always begins with Q, followed by numbers. There are several ways to do so.
Wikidata Search
Search on the Wikidata homepage:
www.wikidata.org
. Now you can copy the id from that page. Alternatively you can extract the ID from a Wikidata URL: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/
Q9141
Wikipedia search
Find a wikipedia article. If the article has a corresponding Wikidata item, you can click the "Wikidata item" button on the side menu. (See the image)
Link to Wikidata on the side of a wikipedia article
Editor integration
iD
Video guide to easily add Wikidata tags with iD
The default OSM editor on the Web, automatically adds the corresponding
wikidata
=*
key when the
wikipedia
=*
key is updated. Note that you don't need to remove the previous
wikipedia
=*
key.
JOSM
The
Wikipedia
plugin for
JOSM
displays geotagged
wikidata
=*
items or
wikipedia
=*
articles in your area, allowing you to conveniently add them without an explicit searching.
Note that you must review every single edited object. Otherwise it is an automated edit and you must follow
Automated Edits code of conduct
Adding missing items to Wikidata
Wikidata is a separate project, and a sister project of Wikipedia, which is freely editable in a similar fashion to OSM and Wikipedia. If an item does not exist in Wikidata itself, you can create it; but please read
Wikidata's notability guidelines
first.
Display
Wikidata values are clickable on the OSM main site, and they link to the corresponding Wikidata item. Example:
369161987
369161987
OpenStreetMap's River Sherbourne relation,
seen in Wikidata
using the '
osm.js
' user script
From Wikidata's side, it is possible to automatically visualize whether a Wikidata item is being linked to and from OSM, by installing
a script
on your
common.js page
Secondary Wikidata links
See also
Secondary Wikipedia links
and
Secondary Wikimedia Commons links
You may tag secondary attributes of a feature by preceding the
wikidata
=*
key with the name of the attribute, separated by a colon (
). The value of such a key would be the same as the normal
wikidata
=*
key but referring to the appropriate Wikidata entry.
For example,
brand:wikidata
Q38076
on a
McDonald's
fast food unit (but don't forget to also tag
brand
McDonald's
, because the former tag doesn't replace the latter).
Common secondary Wikidata tags:
Description
Tag
Example
Operator (not franchise) of a restaurant, shop, bank, or some other customer service or office.
Entity type
must be
organization
operator:wikidata
=*
operator:wikidata
Q3587594
Network of public transit routes.
network:wikidata
=*
network:wikidata
Q614819
Used for various stores or franchise brands. e.g.
McDonald's
for a fast-food franchise outlet.
brand:wikidata
=*
brand:wikidata
Q38076
The architect (or architectural firm) of a building. It should be an
instance of
human
or
company
architect:wikidata
=*
architect:wikidata
Q374276
The artist/maker of statue or other artwork or memorial. It should be an
instance of
human
(if the artwork was not made by a human, use the appropriate info. e.g
elephant
).
artist:wikidata
=*
artist:wikidata
Q5582
The species of a plant or an animal. It should be an
instance of
species:wikidata
=*
species:wikidata
Q15978631
The genus of a plant or an animal, should be an
instance of
. sometimes it is not possible to specify exact species.
genus:wikidata
=*
genus:wikidata
Q171283
The taxon of a plant or an animal, may be either species or genus.
taxon:wikidata
=*
taxon:wikidata
Q171283
The subject of a statue, artwork, or memorial (a person, event, geographical feature, ...). In some rare cases where the subject is plural, values will be separated by a semicolon.
subject:wikidata
=*
subject:wikidata
Q23
The person, event, geographical feature or other subject that an entity (e.g. a street, airport, or building) is named after. For an
old_name
=*
, use
old_name:etymology:wikidata
=*
name:etymology:wikidata
=*
name:etymology:wikidata
Q1394
The specific flag hoisted on a
man_made
flagpole
. The value should be an
instance of
or a
subclass of
flag
flag:wikidata
=*
flag:wikidata
Q172446
The tomb or burial site of a famous individual. The value should be an
instance of
human
(or possibly an
instance of
or
subclass of
an
individual animal
In many cases tombs are treated as special type of memorial with
subject:wikidata
=*
being used.
buried:wikidata
=*
buried:wikidata
Q45785
Famous individual have lived there. The value should be an
instance of
human
notable_tenant:wikidata
=*
notable_tenant:wikidata
Q1275257
The monarch's initials or symbol. Mostly seen on royal mail postal boxes.
royal_cypher:wikidata
=*
royal_cypher:wikidata
Q114242600
The manufacturer of a manufactured object.
manufacturer:wikidata
=*
manufacturer:wikidata
Q7992391
The model designation of a manufactured object.
model:wikidata
=*
model:wikidata
Q3993741
The building itself. Used when a POI is tagged on a building way, but they both have wikidata items.
Note that it is violation of
One feature, one OSM element
and it is preferable to map POI and building as separate objects.
building:wikidata
=*
building:wikidata
Q28404263
!Note:
this is not a exhaustive list of all *:wikidata tags. For a list of all secondary attributes currently being tagged with this key, see
taginfo
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:wikidata
=*
link. Monuments, memorials, statues and similar features should have
wikidata
=*
only if they have their own Wikidata item. The same applies to chain stores.
What not to tag
Instances of the following Wikidata items (and of any subclasses of the listed items) should be avoided in the wikidata=* tag:
These types normally don't occur as OSM objects and since the main
wikidata
=*
tag is for Wikidata items that are equivalent to OSM objects, Wikidata items of these types are normally tagging errors. However, for secondary wikidata tags these classes are fine.
human
(Q5)
(typically
subject:wikidata
=*
should be used for artwork depicting humans or
buried:wikidata
=*
for burial sites for the specific individual)
web page
(Q36774)
(we are not mapping web pages, only specific websites relevant to the tag see
website
=*
.)
person
(Q215627)
(typically
subject:wikidata
=*
should be used, for artwork depicting humans)
animal
(Q729)
(typically
subject:wikidata
=*
should be used, for artwork depicting animals and who is commemorated by a tomb/grave/church)
fiction
(Q8253)
(typically
subject:wikidata
=*
should be used, for artwork depicting fictional characters)
taxon
(Q16521)
(typically
species:wikidata
=*
should be used)
brand
(Q167270)
(typically
brand:wikidata
=*
should be used)
chain store
(Q507619)
(typically
brand:wikidata
=*
should be used)
list
(Q12139612)
(we are not linking lists, only entries describing this specific feature)
publication
(Q732577)
(typically
subject:wikidata
=*
should be used, for artwork depicting publications)
It may be better to store certain data only on Wikidata. For example, instead of using
name:etymology:wikipedia
=*
or
name:etymology:wikidata
=*
one may follow the Wikidata link and use Wikidata's
named after
Bugs and workarounds
Issue 6789
In the ID editor after adding the Wikidata item, the names will be locked in the fields section with the message:
The "Name" field is locked because there is a Wikidata tag. You can delete it or edit the tags in the "Tags" section.
However, it is still possible to edit names using the
tags
section.
See also
wikipedia
=*
– Provides a link to Wikipedia's article about the feature
wikimedia_commons
=*
– Links to related Wikimedia Commons' media of the feature (syntax File:xxxxxx.xxx / Category:xxxxx)
operator:wikidata
=*
– The ID of the Wikidata item about the feature's operator
owner:wikidata
=*
– The ID of the Wikidata item about the feature's owner
brand:wikidata
=*
– The ID of the Wikidata item about the feature's brand
Wikidata
Wikidata#Tools
Retrieved from "
Categories
Key descriptions for group "annotations"
Key descriptions
Key descriptions with status "de facto"
Annotations
World wide external reference tag
Wikidata
Hidden categories:
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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