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Plugin » Wikipedia

A plugin to support tagging objects with wikipedia=* and wikidata=* (for the ​WIWOSM project, among others).

Features

• Located in Sidebar on the right (enable that via menu Windows » Wikipedia)
  • Obtain Wikipedia/Wikidata entries …
    • Coordinates: nearby (wrt. current view, using geolocated articles)
    • Wikidata: nearby Wikidata items (wrt. current view)
    • Category: by category
    • Clipboard: from clipboard (newline separated)
  • Double click on item to search for object with article name (and center coordinate)
  • Add Tag: adds a wikipedia tag corresponding to the selected article to the selected OSM objects
  • Right click on item
    • Open Article: opens selected entry in browser
    • Zoom to selection
  • Language: sets Wikipedia language (see Configuration below)
• Located in edit menu
  • Copy ... template: copies the corresponding template to the system clipboard instantiated with the coordinates of the first selected node (see Configuration below how to add custom template)
• Located in data menu
  • Fetch Wikidata IDs: for the selected objects, looks up the Wikidata IDs based on the Wikipedia tag
  • Search Wikidata items: shows a dialog for querying Wikidata items (in the language set in Configuration)
• Located in Download dialog
  • Download from Sophox API tab
• Demystifies Wikidata IDs in the tags panel

Guide: tag all articles of a Wikipedia category

0. Get familiar with ​WIWOSM
1. Install the wikipedia plugin (see Plugins for details)
2. Display Wikipedia panel (menu Windows » Wikipedia)
3. Set/check Wikipedia language: in Wikipedia panel click
4. Click Category, enter a Wikipedia category to download the name of its articles
5. Use Download from Overpass API to download interesting OSM data
6. Inspect the list elements of the Wikipedia panel
   • indicates that the ​WIWOSM server already delivers some object/s (still, you might tag further objects)
   • indicates that the current dataset (but not the WIWOSM server) links some object/s to this article
   • indicates that no link to this article exists on the WIWOSM server nor in the current dataset.
7. A double click on a list item in the Wikipedia panel performs a JOSM search using the displayed article name (excluding parts in parentheses)
8. Clicking on Add Tag adds a corresponding wikipedia=[lang]:[article] tag to the selected objects

Configuration

• Wikipedia language: in panel on the right click
• Copy templates (for edit menu)
  • Advanced preferences (only in expert mode)
  • Navigate to wikipedia.copytemplates entry, double click
  • Add entry using
  • Insert keys name (name used in menu), id (unique identifier for toolbar), pattern (string with {lat} and {lon} as placeholders) accordingly. Example:
    

• Click OK twice to close preference menu
• Restart JOSM

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