wikipedia plugin's viewport bounding box setting

[katpatuka]

I'd appreciate an advanced setting for the allowed bounding box size of the current viewport for the wikipedia plugin.

In areas where not many wikidata links are to be expected it would be nice if the allowed bounding box size would be more flexible set.

The current setting is that the limit is seemingly at 2.0 km zoom; if one zooms out to 4.0 km this message shows up when clicking on Wikidata items in viewport:

Downloading entries with geo coordinates failed: Bounding box is too big

I don't know if the default setting is so low to reduce the expected server traffic but a warning like Are you sure (yes/cancel) when exceeding the 2.0 km limit would be enough in my eyes...

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[floscher]

This is not a limitation created by the plugin, but by the Wikidata API from where the data is queried. I'm also not sure where exactly the cut-off is (there's no limit mentioned in the ​documentation).

We could probably only realize this by splitting the API query into multiple queries when the bbox is too big.

[katpatuka]

I see ;)