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Wikipedia article linked from OSM object using wikipedia tag is missing.
Often article was moved without leaving redirect and wikipedia tag should be edited to point to the new one.
Article may be deleted and no longer existing, or link was never valid. In such cases wikipedia tag should be deleted.

Bärenkopf - an affected OSM element that may be improved


St. Michael - an affected OSM element that may be improved

overpass query usable in JOSM that will load all objects where this specific error is present:
[out:xml][timeout:3600]; ( node(292106469)['wikipedia'='de:Bärenköpfle (Allgäuer Alpen)']; way(187957739)['wikipedia'='de:St. Michael (Ried)']; ); (._;>;); out meta qt;//['wikipedia tag links to 404']


information board with wikipedia tag, not subject:wikipedia
information board topic must be tagged with subject:wikipedia tag - not with wikipedia tag
an affected OSM element that may be improved

overpass query usable in JOSM that will load all objects where this specific error is present:
[out:xml][timeout:3600]; ( node(310859949)['information'='board']['wikipedia'='de:Burg Kalden']; ); (._;>;); out meta qt;//['information board with wikipedia tag, not subject:wikipedia']


blacklisted connection with known replacement
it is a typical wrong link and it has an obvious replacement, brand:wikipedia/brand:wikidata should be used instead
an affected OSM element that may be improved

overpass query usable in JOSM that will load all objects where this specific error is present:
[out:xml][timeout:3600]; ( node(1036436819)['wikipedia'='de:Deutsche Post AG']; ); (._;>;); out meta qt;//['blacklisted connection with known replacement']


wikipedia wikidata mismatch - for flag prefixed tags
flag:wikidata and flag:wikipedia tags link to a different objects (Q707471 vs Q980 wikidata id assigned to linked Wikipedia article)
an affected OSM element that may be improved

flag:wikidata and flag:wikipedia tags link to a different objects (Q124020 vs Q39 wikidata id assigned to linked Wikipedia article)
an affected OSM element that may be improved

flag:wikidata and flag:wikipedia tags link to a different objects (Q122482 vs Q46 wikidata id assigned to linked Wikipedia article)
an affected OSM element that may be improved

flag:wikidata and flag:wikipedia tags link to a different objects (Q124020 vs Q39 wikidata id assigned to linked Wikipedia article)
an affected OSM element that may be improved

flag:wikidata and flag:wikipedia tags link to a different objects (Q46585 vs Q55 wikidata id assigned to linked Wikipedia article)
an affected OSM element that may be improved

flag:wikidata and flag:wikipedia tags link to a different objects (Q46835 vs Q40 wikidata id assigned to linked Wikipedia article)
an affected OSM element that may be improved

flag:wikidata and flag:wikipedia tags link to a different objects (Q83149 vs Q20 wikidata id assigned to linked Wikipedia article)
an affected OSM element that may be improved

flag:wikidata and flag:wikipedia tags link to a different objects (Q83278 vs Q145 wikidata id assigned to linked Wikipedia article)
an affected OSM element that may be improved

overpass query usable in JOSM that will load all objects where this specific error is present:
[out:xml][timeout:3600]; ( node(10570642048)['flag:wikidata'='Q707471']['flag:wikipedia'='de:Bayern']; node(3909985717)['flag:wikidata'='Q124020']['flag:wikipedia'='de:Schweiz']; node(4465575804)['flag:wikidata'='Q122482']['flag:wikipedia'='de:Europa']; node(4465575812)['flag:wikidata'='Q124020']['flag:wikipedia'='de:Schweiz']; node(4465575817)['flag:wikidata'='Q46585']['flag:wikipedia'='de:Niederlande']; node(4465577776)['flag:wikidata'='Q46835']['flag:wikipedia'='de:Österreich']; node(4465577997)['flag:wikidata'='Q83149']['flag:wikipedia'='de:Norwegen']; node(4465578011)['flag:wikidata'='Q83278']['flag:wikipedia'='de:Vereinigtes Königreich']; ); (._;>;); out meta qt;//['wikipedia wikidata mismatch - for flag prefixed tags']


something is wrong with wikipedia tag - fixme:wikipedia is present
see fixme:wikipedia tag for hints
Burgen und Burgruinen im Allgäu - an affected OSM element that may be improved

overpass query usable in JOSM that will load all objects where this specific error is present:
[out:xml][timeout:3600]; ( relation(1637343)['fixme:wikipedia'='de:Liste der Burgen und Schlösser im Allgäu']; ); (._;>;); out meta qt;//['something is wrong with wikipedia tag - fixme:wikipedia is present']

Other useful resources

JOSM Wikipedia plugin


Note to self: online version hosted at https://matkoniecz.github.io/OSM-wikipedia-tag-validator-reports, files are stored at https://github.com/matkoniecz/OSM-wikipedia-tag-validator-reports.