[Tagging] RFC: remove alphanumeric code visible in infoboxes at OSM Wiki linking to Wikidata
Mateusz Konieczny
matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Sat Apr 2 22:43:34 UTC 2022
Apr 2, 2022, 20:06 by andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk:
> On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 at 18:32, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> Apr 2, 2022, 18:16 by andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk:
>>
>> Space - of which this entry takes up very little - is not an issue for
>> infobox templates.
>>
>> 1) it is primary about complexity and information overload
>> and outright misleading info
>>
>
> A single Wikidata link is not "complex".
>
I was thinking about overall complexity of OSM, OSM Wiki,
specific tag pages and infobox specifically.
As more elements are presented this gets overall more and
more complex.
In such situation presence of confusing links of very limited
use in infobox is a mistake.
Infobox should contain summary and the most crucial info.
> Your claims of "outright misleading info" are based on a
> statistically-insignificant handful of edge cases examples.
>
I spend already massive amount of time of cleaning up
many mismatches. I am not planning to produce rigorous
analysis here that would be publishable in a journal.
> Would you
> be happy with other projects dropping links to OSM based on a similar
> sample? I'm sure OSM has as many, if not many more.
>
Depends on quality they need. For some projects OSM data is not
good enough and never will be good enough. And such projects need
professional survey, sometimes custom and dedicated survey.
> Each of those examples is easily fixable.
>
Feel free to fix them, most of this examples are listed and waiting
for over year.
After fixing the I will either provide more or will happily declare
that this problem is not existing anymore.
But I tried to fix some structural issues on Wikidata
in past and it was not easy, and I am not planning to
spend my time on it.
>> 2) on mobile space is also problem
>>
>
> It is not.
>
Well, in my experience on mobile devices screen space is very valuable,
especially on smartphones.
This is quite standard advise for materials published on mobile devices.
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