Forget aliases, it will only add to the overall mess. Labels should be versioned.
John On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 11.07.2015 um 09:28 schrieb Gerard Meijssen: >> Hoi, >> I blogged about it. My argument is that Wikipedia should not be fenced in by >> assumptions from Wikidata. > > Your blog post seemsw to assume that the wikidata label will be displayed on > wikipedia. That's not the case. We are discussing the use of localized > property > names (let's just stop calling them labels, it's misleading) for properties in > the {{#property}} parser function, in order to retrieve the value. Only the > value. So, is an ID better than a localized unique name? Both will only be > visible in wikitext, and, in practice, only in wikitext in templates. > > Your blog post states that labels cannot be changed once they are set. This is > wrong. The can be changed. Currently, that will however break all wikitext > (templates) that use that name to refer to the property. This is what we are > trying to fix by allowing properties to be accessed by an alias. The downside > is > that this requires aliases to be unique. > > I'm not sure how the number of languages is relevant at all. The name(s) of a > property have to be unique per language. How many languages there are doesn't > matter at all for this, since there can not be conflicts between languages. > > In any case, *non* of this is at all visible to readers. > > -- > 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
