On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 09.07.2015 um 14:22 schrieb Thomas Douillard:> Substitution is a standard > mechanism in MediaWiki and would achive what Gerard >> needs ... for example: >> "{{subst:property_prime|date of birth}}" could be expanded and substituted to >> "{{#property:Pxxx}} <--date of birth-->" and everything would be stored in >> the >> Wikitext. What's wrong with this kind of solution exactly ? you did not >> elaborate on that. > > There is nothing wrong with that. If people on the client wikis think this is > sufficient, and the {{#property}} parser function does not need to support > "named" access to properties, that would be fine with me. So far, I assumed > that > it would be very annoying to be forced to rely on IDs when using > {{#property}}. > But if that is fine with everybody, that's fine with me - supporting only > P-ids > there is much simpler than allowing access via labels or aliases.
Accessing only via the property's ID isn't enough. Folks, we want more usage of Wikidata on the Wikipedias and other sister projects. There'll be a few bullets we have to bite to make this happen. I am convinced this is one of them. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
