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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

I am submitting
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/remove_link_to_Wikidata_from_infoboxes
again for a RFC

I propose to remove alphanumeric code visible in infoboxes at OSM Wiki
linking to Wikidata

Infobox is a box on the side of the tag page on OSM Wiki, listing the
summary of the most important info. See for example Tag:tourism=hotel
at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dhotel

Currently it contains at the bottom link to external site Wikidata or
request to add such link.

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_marked.png with
marked Wikidata link.

I propose to remove this link from displayed infoboxes as as confusing,
unnecessary and not worth using infobox space.

Infobox is only for the most important information.

Link to sort-of-related Wikidata page is not an important information
and therefore should be removed.

It is highly confusing and unclear, and OpenStreetMap in general and
OSM Wiki specifically already suffers from overwhelming complexity. We
do not need unnecessary and not needed complexity.



Preemptive explanation

This proposal is about removal of specific part of infobox on OSM Wiki
pages - which either links Wikidata item or requests editors to add it.
Data itself will not be lost.


* It has no impact on anything mapped
* It has no impact on wikidata=*, species:wikidata=*, brand:wikidata=*
  or any other tag in the OpenStreetMap database.
* It has no impact on data items, including P12 property.
* It will be still possible to add and use Wikidata links stored in
  data items
- even if it will be no longer possible on OSM Wiki
* It has no impact on linking relevant Wikipedia articles in "External
  links" sections
- this is often very useful
* It will not lead to any data loss, but will make Wikidata link far
  less prominent
* Wikidata is different site than sites such as OSM Wiki, taginfo, OSM
  Data items or Wikipedia.
* I tried to remove this without full scale proposal (this was also
  introduced without full scale proposal) but it got stuck

Why RFC again?


I needed to write special verification script to ensure that I can copy
all info present only on OSM Wiki into data items to protect against
any data loss that would be caused otherwise.

And then move such info.

In case of a succcesful vote I would ensure that no data is lost.
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