On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Joe Filceolaire <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Do labels provide attribution/sources? That seems to be the key missing ingredient in the OPs query. Tom > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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