On 20 March 2014 12:51, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 "historic name : Warschau (date:1939-45)", but this would be
> shown as a historic name in Polish, German, English, Chinese...
There's a language modifer, P407, for properties. So you'd have
historic name: Warschau
date: 1939-45
language: German
(or whatever)
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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