Ah, great. Thanks for the answer! I'm glad to hear that it makes development faster :)
Will the forms be terms too? That *might* even be a solution for the multiscript issue. On Wed, Nov 2, 2016, 14:42 Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 02.11.2016 um 21:53 schrieb Denny Vrandečić: > > Hi, > > > > I am not questioning or criticizing, just curious - why was it decided to > > implement lemmas as terms? I guess it is for code reuse purposes, but > just > > wanted to ask. > > Yes, ideed. We have code for rendering, serializing, indexing, and > searching > Terms. We do not have any infrastructure for plain strings. We could also > handle > it as a monolingual-text StringValue, but that offers less re-use, in > particular > no search, and no batch lookup for rendering. > > Also, conceptually, the lemma is rather similar to a label. And it's > always *in* > a language. The only question is whether we only have one, or multiple (for > variants/scripts). But one will do for now. > > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Senior Software Developer > > Wikimedia Deutschland > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech >
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