Daniel Kinzler says " Consider {{#property:date of birth}}. That's much
more readable than
{{#property:P569}}, right?
"
Yes, it is more readable, but is it really all worth the effort ?
Perhaps allow input with the {{#property:P569}}
but then after page is saved... Computer Magic Happens Here ...
the tag then looks like {{#property:P569|date of birth}}
It magically inserts the label as well ... to support the feature request
of having readable properties ?
Or is the feature request to actually allow input that looks like
{{#property:date of birth}} so that folks do not even have to remember
numbers or lookup the mapping ?
Thad
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Am 08.07.2015 um 14:13 schrieb John Erling Blad:
> > What you want is closer to a redirect than an alias, while an alias is
> > closer to a disambiguation page.
>
> Yes. The semantics of labels on properties is indeed different from labels
> on
> items, and always has been. Property labels are defined to be unique names.
> Extending the uniqueness to aliases allows them, to qact as redirects,
> which
> allow use to "rename" or "move" properties (that is, change their label).
>
> Using (unique) aliases for this seems the simplest solution. Introducing
> another
> kind-of-aliases would be confusing in the UI as well as in the data model,
> and
> wopuld require a lot more code, which is nearly exactly the same as for
> aliases.
>
> I don't follow your example with the DC vocabulary. For the height, width
> and
> length properties, why would one want an alias that is the same for all of
> them?
> What would that be useful for?
>
>
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>
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