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Publish Help doc to help Wikimedians who want to add names in OpenStreetMap
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Now that we are exposing multilingual data, we can expect that more Wikimedians will want to add names in their own language to OpenStreetMap. Here is one user, who has encountered this difficulty.

What is the easy way to localize a name in OSM? Is there any plans? Many places doesn't have Bengali localization, so last week i tried to have add some Bengali name. After so many steps i finally managed to add a translation & i took one minute to complete just for one place. আফতাব (talk) 22:21, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

We don't want to reproduce the OSM documentation, lest our help get out of date when they make changes. I'm thinking more in terms of a specialized briefing for Wikimedians, along with links to the best docs on OSM.

Event Timeline

There are a collection of links on the OSM wiki that might provide some context of past collaborations.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikipedia

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