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 <[email protected]>: > > > > Am 20/mar/2014 um 13:51 schrieb Andrew Gray <[email protected]>: > > > > 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 "historic name : Warschau (date:1939-45)", but this would be > > shown as a historic name in Polish, German, English, Chinese... > > > maybe that's not a problem as this was indeed the official name in that > time? > > cheers, > Martin
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