Proposal talk:Documentation of key prefixes & suffixes
Data items
Resolved: Has been incorporated into the proposal.What new data items have to be created? Looking at e.g. Item:Q5313 (the data item for key:disused:). I think we would need:
- a data item for key prefix (to be used with instance of)
- a data item for key suffix (to be used with instance of)
- a property for permanent key prefix ID
- a property for permanent key suffix ID
Am I missing something?
--Push-f (talk) 07:28, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
How the data items for prefix und suffix keys should be named (labeled)? With ":" or without ":"? - Consistently when we remove the ":" of the key description page name and replace it by namespace, the data item should also have no ":" in naming. But I'm not sure with this. Technical we could have two items identically labeled (in cases where there is usage as a key and a prefix). They would be distinguished by the item and property listed above (instance of and permanent ID). On the other hand keeping the ":" might be more handy to humans. --Chris2map (talk) 08:02, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
- Good thinking! Yes I agree that adding ":" would be more human-friendly, I added it to the proposal. --Push-f (talk) 09:10, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Template parameters
Resolved: Template:KeyPrefixDescription has been created. The parameters should be discussed there.Which template parameters of Template:KeyDescription make sense for key prefixes/suffixes and which don't?
E.g. drink=* currently describes onWay=no which does make sense for the drink namespace.
--Push-f (talk) 07:28, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
What about the transport modes?
Resolved: I created Transport mode along with two exemplary redirects Key:*:bicycle and Key:*:hgv.There are many transport modes (they are listed under Key:access#Transport mode restrictions, see also Talk:Wiki#Introducing Category:Transport modes) e.g. foot=*, bicycle=* and motorcar=*.
While the keys for these describe access restrictions, they can also be used as suffixes for restriction tags such as oneway=*, maxspeed=*, maxwidth=* and maxweight=*, e.g. oneway:bicycle=* and maxspeed:hgv=*.
I don't think that we should actually create KeySuffix:* pages for all these >50 transport modes because the way these transport modes can be used as suffixes is always the same (and duplicating all these description & image parameters would be quite the maintenance nightmare).
I think it might make sense to document how transport modes may be used as key suffixes at a singular page and redirect all the specific transport mode suffixes like KeySuffix:foot, KeySuffix:bicycle and KeySuffix:motorcar there.
--Push-f (talk) 07:59, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
Distinguishing just prefix and suffix is not sufficient
Resolved: Documenting the order of prefixes / suffixes is a good idea but out of the scope of this proposal (which mainly seeks to address the key vs key prefix confusion).We have many different key parts that can be combined in quite complicated ways. Defining some as prefix and some as suffix doesn't help establishing an order. E.g. :lanes and :backward would both be suffixes, but the order of the two matters. We only use :lanes:backward, but not :backward:lanes. Add another suffix: :conditional. Where does it go? Some time ago I started documenting which order of key parts we actually use according to Taginfo usage statistics which turned out to be astonishingly consistent: User:Mueschel/OrderOfKeyParts. --Mueschel (talk) 21:50, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree that we should also document the order of suffixes are meant to be combined. Namespace would be a good place for that. I don't think that we should drop the prefix / suffix distinction completely just because it doesn't explain everything. --Push-f (talk) 21:10, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
Same for `playground:`
Resolved: playground: was added to the Affected pages section.When I first looked at those pages, took me way too long to understand the difference between https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Key:playground: and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Key:playground. --Tordans (talk) 08:21, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, I added it to the Affected pages section. (I don't think that it's necessary that we list all pages there, the list there is just for people to get the idea.) --Push-f (talk) 09:07, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Good idea
Overall, it is a good idea and I support this proposal. Thanks for making it! Hopefully you will continue working on it @Push-f: Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 13:19, 17 July 2022 (UTC)