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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Thanks, I added it to 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/remove_link_to_Wikidata_from_infoboxes/misleading_matches
and notified Wikidata contributors at 
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q515#Selfcontradictory

Apr 2, 2022, 10:26 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

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>> On 2 Apr 2022, at 09:33, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> c) an entity page should frequently match to a known entity in Wikidata. When it doesn't then it may be a sign to think again, or Wikidata is wrong/missing something and we could improve it.
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> lets have a look at an example, place=city in OpenStreetMap is linked to > https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515
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> the French definition says it should have at least a population of dozens of thousands.
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> There is also this statement:
> has quality <https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1552>
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> statements of instances in qualifiers <https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47524457>
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> population <https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1082>
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> 10,000,000±9,900,000
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> and it says the Vatican City is a model item for a city: 
> https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237
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> (it has not even 1000 inhabitants and is not a settlement on its own but a part of Rome)
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> Even the most essential items are full of contradictions and we haven’t even looked at the content of the wikipedia articles in all the languages.
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> Yes, these concepts are related, but IMHO you can hardly benefit from the relation because of the details and different definitions (even in the one-sentence title within WD if you compare languages), and more when comparing to OpenStreetMap. The relation is just too loose
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity
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> Cheers Martin 
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