Plugin » Wikipedia

A plugin to support tagging objects with wikipedia=* (mainly for the ​WIWOSM project).

Recommended Usage

0. Get familiar with ​WIWOSM
1. Install the plugins wikipedia, ​mirrored_download (see Help/Preferences/Plugins for details)
2. Restart JOSM
3. Display Wikipedia dialog (menu Windows » Wikipedia)
4. Set/check Wikipedia language: in Wikipedia dialog click
5. Click Category, enter a Wikipedia category to download the name of its articles
6. Use the mirrored_download plugin to download interesting OSM data
7. Inspect the list elements of the Wikipedia dialog
   • 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.
8. A double click on a list item in the Wikipedia dialog performs a JOSM search using the displayed article name (excluding parts in parentheses)
9. Clicking on Add Tag adds a corresponding wikipedia=[lang]:[article] tag to the selected objects

Features

• Located in toggle dialog on the right (enable that via menu Windows » Wikipedia)
  • Obtain Wikipedia entries …
    • Coordinates: nearby (wrt. current view, using geolocated articles)
    • 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
  • Open Article: opens selected entry in browser
  • Language: sets Wikipedia language (see #Configuration)
• 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 how to add custom template)

Configuration

• Wikipedia language: in toggle dialog 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