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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 4, 2022, 21:53 by hufkratzer at gmail.com:

>  And I would prefer to leave the existing links visible, because many are helpful 
>
In which cases link to wikidata in infobox would be better than link to wikipedia
in external links?

See say https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dheath - 
which one of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27590 and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath is more useful to a typical reader?

Or from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Ddefibrillator
- compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_external_defibrillator linked
in external links and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q787407

(note that data items are linked from Wikipedia articles in sidebar, 
so if someone wants to reach them they can do this in case of 
linking Wikipedia page)


> and no one is forced to look at them
>

Well, noone is forced to open them but when you look through infobox
you inevitably see them.

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