[Tagging] RFC: remove alphanumeric code visible in infoboxes at OSM Wiki linking to Wikidata

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Tue Jan 19 21:33:06 UTC 2021




Jan 19, 2021, 21:58 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

> Am Di., 19. Jan. 2021 um 21:30 Uhr schrieb Joseph Eisenberg <> joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> >:
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>> If it is deemed necessary to vote on this, I believe we should use a 50% margin to add or remove the feature from the wiki, since this is a binary choice.
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> isn't every tagging voting a binary choice? vote yes or no?
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> Anyway, I agree that this has nothing to do with the proposal process for tags, if we can't commonly agree on a solution, an absolute majority vote seems sufficient for removing it. As it is, I also see more damage from being it there (linking to misleading wikidata items) then not, but it must not necessarily be like this.
>

Quite ironically proposal process explicitly allows adjustment of threshold
necessary for vote to pass and my another proposal is trying to remove this mention.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/change_vote_counting_rules


So I can
- go with usual voting rules, get >74% (no problem)

- go with usual voting rules, get clear support but not above 74% (I wasted mine and
others time, there is clear support but proposal failed - now what?)

- declare vote to be passing at 50% (may result in outcry for example from whoever
want to keep it - and then what? Ignore them? Make vote how vote should be done?
Decide that my own proposal should pass at 50%? Totally not biased at all.)

- get support below 50% (turns out that proposal was misguided, I will try to
setup ublock rule and pretend that this links are not existing)

My main problem with changing threshold to 50% I would need clear support
to avoid 
(I) deadlock with interpreting results
(II) people voting against solely due to weird change in vote threshold

On the other hand I consider it a bit irritating that it was introduced without support,
got widespread and now extramajority is needed to put it back into a box.
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