AIUI, currently, Wikidata can add:
* language-specific labels (ie alternative names)
* language-independent properties (strings or relationships)
Properties can have modifiers such as date, labels can't. So there's a
bit of a challenge here - we would be able to construct a field that
says
Andrew: I think this is key to making Wikidata suitable for a historical
gazetteer. Andy was referring to changes allowing names/labels with dates.
Will there be such?
Susanna
2014-03-20 15:24 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com:
Am 20/mar/2014 um 13:51 schrieb Andrew Gray
I'm picking up points from this discussion and adding them to a Trello
board in https://trello.com/b/uXP9JmSP/wikimaps-gazetteer at
https://trello.com/wikimaps. Feel free to participate!
Susanna
2014-03-20 15:30 GMT+02:00 Susanna Ånäs susanna.a...@gmail.com:
Andrew: I think this is key to
I think the problem is that we sometimes need to reflect more than just the
single official name - at the moment we include multilingual names, which
is great, and it's a bit of a backwards step to lose that ability for the
past. Imagine if you're looking at an English or German map of Russia -
Well, that is one part of the problem, which could be addressed in Wikidata
with a property official name with the datatype mono- or multi-lingual
string
(plannedhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan#Multi-lingual_text_datatype_.28optional.29,
but not available yet) plus the
Property 'Official name' with datatype 'monolingual text' has already been
approved but is waiting for that datatype before it is created. It is
designed for the use you described - listing the various official names
with qualifiers for language, start date, end date etc. No matter what your
On 20 March 2014 17:43, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
I think the problem is that we sometimes need to reflect more than just the
single official name - at the moment we include multilingual names, which is
great, and it's a bit of a backwards step to lose that ability for the
If we have multilingual string datatypes coming, I take it back.
Hurrah! :-) (I hadn't realised that was on the roadmap).
Andrew.
On 20 March 2014 18:19, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, that is one part of the problem, which could be addressed in Wikidata
with a property official
