We do have a data type that supports multilingual strings. <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_model#Multilingual_texts>
It is obviously not implemented yet, but already we did think about this and it is in the spec. So that solution would be indeed practical. Cheers, Denny 2012/8/15 Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]>: > On 14/08/12 22:57, Gregor Hagedorn wrote: >> >> I would prefer if the decision whether entity-identity is known or >> whether only a name-string or other label is known, should be left to >> the Wikidata editor community, and not prescribed by the software. > > > I'm afraid that this will not be really possible in practice, since there is > no support for multilingual strings. If you want to display a mayor name in > multiple languages, you will have to link to an entity. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
