Silly question: Why not leave the system as it is (allowing for non-unique
aliases), but do some (reasonable) cleanup, then warn Wikipedia editors
when they use a non-unique alias? Like using references without the
{{reflist}}?On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > What you describe is the problem that arise from preferred label vs > alternate label, and that "our" labels are used as preferred labels > while the aliases are used as alternate label. The first is sort of > correct while the last is not correct. Create a new alternate label > that can be used for unique lookup. > > What you want is closer to a redirect than an alias, while an alias is > closer to a disambiguation page. > > For an example of an ontology; assume you want aliases for DCterms and > we have properties height, width, length. Then those three properties > would all have the alias "DCterms extent". We are actually planning to > create properties for height, width and length, it is only me that > want extent. > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Daniel Kinzler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 08.07.2015 um 13:43 schrieb John Erling Blad: > >> We will get clashes between different ontologies, can't see how we can > >> avoid that. Our label should be unique, but not aliases. We use > >> aliases as a way to access something that we later must disambiguate. > >> We should not have a uniqueness constraint on aliases, it simply makes > >> no sense. > > > > That's what we had. The problem is: you can't change the label without > changing > > all references to it, then. IF properites can also be addressed by their > > aliases, it's simple to change the primary name (label), or add a > secondary name > > (alias). > > > > What kind of clash with another ontology do you mean? Can you give a > concrete > > example? > > > > > > -- > > Daniel Kinzler > > Senior Software Developer > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland > > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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