On 12/08/2019 00:05, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Is it now unavoidable that the info box content on tag definition
pages in the wiki comes from the database? Is there consensus that the
higher complexity to edit it is less important than the features we
gain from it
I don't think it's unavoidable - presumably you can just ignore the
wikidata stuff and carry on as before?
For example, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:verge is an in-use
tag that has not wikidata entry, does not need one and that page is
useful despite that.
I'm concerned that some wikidata entries are just plain wrong -
especially in places where OSM's use of a word doesn't match the normal
English (any English - English, American, Hiberno-, etc.) usage of that
word. Examples include
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity (though there
wikidata's English description at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515
"large and permanent human settlement by size of its inhabitants" adds
extra comedy), https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dwood
and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dforest which both
link to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4421 . In each of these cases
all nuance of the usage of the OSM tag is lost.
Best Regards,
Andy
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