Hoi,
YES !! It is almost certain that this will not consistently work for any
and all languages and it will result in confusion at best. Relying on an ID
is easily understood.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 9 July 2015 at 03:12, Ricordisamoa <[email protected]> wrote:
> Il 08/07/2015 22:00, Daniel Kinzler ha scritto:
>
>> The idea was readability and internationalization.
>>
>
> Which one is more readable and internationalized,
> {{#property:syntymäaika}} or {{#property:P569}} ?
> The former makes reading and reusing templates from other wikis much
> harder.
>
>
>> If there is consensus to not use human readable property names for
>> accessing
>> data, and solely rely on IDs instead, we could indeed stop all this right
>> now,
>> and just drop the uniqueness constraint for labels as well as for aliases
>> of
>> properties.
>>
>
> Yes!
>
>
>> You are right that changing the name of a property shouldn't be as easy
>> as it
>> currently is. There should at least be a warning.
>>
>>
>>
>
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