[OSM-talk] Remove Wikidata parameter from Infobox on wiki (ValueDescription, KeyDescription boxes)

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 3, 2020, 18:10 by joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com:

> I propose removing the "wikidata=" parameter from the descriptions of keys and tags on the OpenStreetMap wiki. See discussion:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template_talk:ValueDescription#Wikidata
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Yes, infobox is for the summary of the most important information.

Wikidata link maybe can be useful in some extremely rare cases, but none is typical
for people using OSM Wiki.

It is certainly not deserving to be displayed there.

And now, with Data items this data can be added there, so not displaying it in the infoxbox 
does not mean that data loss would happen.

I fully support not showing this kind of links in our infoboxes.

> I've also noted that often the links are wrong, because a tag like "craft=*" is not the same as the wikidata definition of "crafts". You would need to link to several wikidata concepts to describe one OpenStreetMap tag in that case.
>
Yeah, links are weird mix of "Wikidata data items about OSM tag" (that has 0 added value),
"sort of related data item but not actually matching OSM tag" (misleading) and some
"matches OSM tag but there are crucial differences" (misleading anyway) and rare cases
where context exactly matches (but added value is minimal if any).

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