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 <[email protected]>: > 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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