I suspect these are not wikidata aliases. They are probably labels in other languages.
While wikidata doesn't have a multilingual datatype it does allow you to add labels (and aliases) in any language and these labels, if they are correct, are the appropriate thing to use to localise osm place names Hope this helps On 10 Mar 2015 22:21, "Markus Krötzsch" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10.03.2015 17:09, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > >> Am 10.03.2015 um 16:55 schrieb Markus Krötzsch: >> >>> Hi Serge, >>> >>> The short answer to this is that the purpose of aliases in Wikidata is >>> to help >>> searching for items, and nothing more. Aliases may include nicknames >>> that are in >>> no way official, and abbreviations that are not valid if used in another >>> context. Therefore, they seem to be a poor source of data to import into >>> other >>> projects. >>> >>> Wikidata has properties such as birth name >>> (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1477) that are used to provide >>> properly >>> sourced multi-lingual text data for items. >>> >> >> Note: Wikidata doesn't yet support multilingual property values, only >> "monolingual" (language + value). However, multiple statements about the >> respective property can be used to provide values in different languages. >> That's >> actually desirable in this case, since it allows different sources to be >> given >> for different languages. >> > > Good point; my formulation was ambiguous. In fact, alias-like properties > are a case where you really want "monolingual text" data, since there is no > one-to-one correspondence between aliases in different languages. > > Markus > > >> For towns and streets, the best property to use would probably be >> "official >> name" https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1448 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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