There is no need to have item for each redirect. But it would be usefuil if SOME redirects could be linked in wikidta items
JAnD 2014-10-22 19:04 GMT+02:00 Smolenski Nikola <smole...@eunet.rs>: > Citiranje James Heald <j.he...@ucl.ac.uk>: >> On 22/10/2014 14:23, Smolenski Nikola wrote: >> > Citiranje James Heald <j.he...@ucl.ac.uk>: >> >> (1) There would be no change to the item structure on Wikidata in any >> >> way -- no change to the values of any of the item properties -- only >> >> some extra sitelinks. >> >> >> >> So I don't see *why* you think there would be any risk to Wikidata's >> >> "own integrity". >> > >> > Interestingly how no one mentions (or have I missed it?) what to me seems >> to be >> > the biggest problem, and that is the possibility that multiple Wikidata >> items >> > link to a single Wikipedia article. >> > >> > If sitelinks to redirects are ever implemented, it would be imperative that >> it >> > is checked that no two redirects lead to the same place. >> >> It's no problem if multiple redirects link to the same place. >> >> For example, on en-wiki, we have >> Luke Havell (redirect) -> Havell family >> Robert Havell (redirect) -> Havell family >> Daniel Havell (redirect) -> Havell family >> etc >> >> It's no problem if we have different items >> Q(Luke Havell) -> Luke Havell (redirect) >> Q(Robert Havell) -> Robert Havell (redirect) >> Q(Daniel Havell) -> Daniel Havell (redirect) >> >> different items, for different people, sitelinked to different places on >> en-wiki, that happen to be redirects. > > All right, that may not be a big problem. However, it would be a big problem > if > we have: > > Q(Coat of Arms of Novi Sad) -> Coat of Arms of Novi Sad -> Novi Sad > Q(something) -> Coat of arms of Novi Sad -> Novi Sad > Q(something) -> Coat of arms of novi sad -> Novi Sad > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
