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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 3, 2020, 18:10 by joseph.eisenberg@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I propose removing the "wikidata=" parameter from the descriptions of keys and tags on the OpenStreetMap wiki. See discussion:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template_talk:ValueDescription#Wikidata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template_talk:ValueDescription#Wikidata</a><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Yes, infobox is for the summary of the most important information.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Wikidata link maybe can be useful in some extremely rare cases, but none is typical<br></div><div>for people using OSM Wiki.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It is certainly not deserving to be displayed there.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And now, with Data items this data can be added there, so not displaying it in the infoxbox <br></div><div>does not mean that data loss would happen.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I fully support not showing this kind of links in our infoboxes.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I've also noted that often the links are wrong, because a tag like "craft=*" is not the same as the wikidata definition of "crafts". You would need to link to several wikidata concepts to describe one OpenStreetMap tag in that case.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Yeah, links are weird mix of "Wikidata data items about OSM tag" (that has 0 added value),<br></div><div>"sort of related data item but not actually matching OSM tag" (misleading) and some<br></div><div>"matches OSM tag but there are crucial differences" (misleading anyway) and rare cases<br></div><div>where context exactly matches (but added value is minimal if any).<br></div><div><br></div> </body>
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