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<div>As far as I can see it was done without real discussion by Pigsonthewing, see</div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/remove_link_to_Wikidata_from_infoboxes&oldid=2094405#History">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/remove_link_to_Wikidata_from_infoboxes&oldid=2094405#History</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Fact that it was done without real discussion seems confirmed by fact that<br></div><div>Pigsonthewing tried to remove this mentions with<br></div><div>"<span class=""><span dir="auto">rm partisan and irrelevant links</span></span>" edit description<br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/remove_link_to_Wikidata_from_infoboxes&diff=2094228&oldid=2094226">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/remove_link_to_Wikidata_from_infoboxes&diff=2094228&oldid=2094226</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>20 Jan 2021, 00:46 by voschix@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Maybe a stupid question:<br></div><div>who decided to add this Wikidata thing to the Wiki pages in the first placce. <br></div><div>What was the decision process that led to doing it.<br></div><div>Any pointers to past discussions?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Volker<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 22:39, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>sent from a phone<br></div><div> <br></div><div> > On 19 Jan 2021, at 22:22, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> > <br></div><div> > - (3) we are anyway missing people willing to fix this invalid links in OSM Wiki<br></div><div> <br></div><div> and <br></div><div> (4) people aren’t improving OpenStreetMap tag objects in wikidata (see highway tag object, nothing has been done for years)<br></div><div> <br></div><div> the only option to get a wd link that fits perfectly and will also fit in the future, is a specific object crafted for an OpenStreetMap tag, everything else will have its own scope and logics and will at most describe a similar concept. This is also true for the “translations” (which aren’t real translations, they are alternative versions in different languages, sometimes completely different from other languages)<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> Cheers Martin <br></div><div> _______________________________________________<br></div><div> Tagging mailing list<br></div><div> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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