Also JOSM core must demystify Wikidata tags

[simon04]

From ticket:9775#comment:3

More info:

If an object already has a Wikidata ID, fetch (via API) and display the Wikidata label (and description?) in the user's preferred language (with fallback to English/ whatever is available?) link to the Wikidata item (e.g. for Q5642705, display "Hall of Memory, Birmingham" and link to ​https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5642705 )

Also, this should be core (if a user finds a Wikidata ID, it should be explained to them, always).

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From ticket:9775#comment:9

Thank you for your efforts; however, this is not fixed; nor is it a plugin issue.

When a user - an ordinary user, with no Wikipedia plugin installed - sees the tag "Wikidata:Q15771334", that is meaningless to them. The request is to fetch the human-friendly text label for that item, in the user's preferred language, and display that alongside the tag, for example as "Wikidata:Q15771334 (Odeon, Kingstanding)".

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PS: I personally do not think that we need this implemented right now …

[stoecker]

Actually I think is a WONTFIX. The plugin solves that issue. Maybe a note in JOSM could tell the user somehow that it would be a good idea to install the plugin (mouseover, ...).

[pigsonthewing]

If this is not default functionality in core, then the issue for which the ticket from which this was forked is not addressed.

[Don-vip]

Replying to stoecker:

Maybe a note in JOSM could tell the user somehow that it would be a good idea to install the plugin (mouseover, ...).

Sounds very nice. Maybe we could add a new entry in the plugin manifest that would list the tags for which a plugin provides extended functionality. Then when selecting/hovering a tag we could suggest somewhat to install this plugin.