<HTML><BODY><div><div>i may be missing something but Pigsonthewing is a Wiki:Administrators</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki:Administrators">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki:Administrators</a></div><div> </div><div><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Like other systems, this wiki has a user role or<span> </span></span><b style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">administrators</b><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span> </span>or<span> </span></span><b style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">sysops</b><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">. These people can block users, 'delete' pages, 'protect' pages and a few other special wiki operations. They mainly act as janitors or operators, hence the name<span> </span></span><b style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">sys</b><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">tem<span> </span></span><b style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">op</b><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">erators within this wiki.</span></div><div> </div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;">Tuesday, January 19, 2021 5:55 PM -06:00 from Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging@openstreetmap.org>:<br> <div id=""><div class="js-helper js-readmsg-msg"><div><div id="style_16111005270689558755_BODY"><div class="cl_122299"><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" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/remove_link_to_Wikidata_from_infoboxes&oldid=2094405#History</a></div><div> </div><div>Fact that it was done without real discussion seems confirmed by fact that</div><div>Pigsonthewing tried to remove this mentions with</div><div>"<span><span>rm partisan and irrelevant links</span></span>" edit description</div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/remove_link_to_Wikidata_from_infoboxes&diff=2094228&oldid=2094226" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/remove_link_to_Wikidata_from_infoboxes&diff=2094228&oldid=2094226</a></div><div> </div><div class="mail-quote-collapse"><div><span>20 Jan 2021, 00:46 by voschix@gmail.com:</span></div><div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8;padding-left: 10px;margin-left: 5px;" class="tutanota_quote_mr_css_attr"><div><div>Maybe a stupid question:</div><div>who decided to add this Wikidata thing to the Wiki pages in the first placce.</div><div>What was the decision process that led to doing it.</div><div>Any pointers to past discussions?</div><div> </div><div>Volker</div><div> </div><div> </div></div><div> </div><div><div><span>On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 22:39, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3adieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> </div><div> </div><div>sent from a phone</div><div> </div><div>> On 19 Jan 2021, at 22:22, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3atagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:</div><div>></div><div>> - (3) we are anyway missing people willing to fix this invalid links in OSM Wiki</div><div> </div><div>and</div><div>(4) people aren’t improving OpenStreetMap tag objects in wikidata (see highway tag object, nothing has been done for years)</div><div> </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)</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Cheers Martin</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Tagging mailing list</div><div><a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3aTagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div> </div></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br>Tagging mailing list<br><a href="/compose?To=Tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote> <div> </div><div data-signature-widget="container"><div data-signature-widget="content"><div> </div></div></div><div> </div></div></BODY></HTML>