> No we should not make the aliases unique, the reason aliases are useful is because they are _not_ unique.
They are still usefil if they are not unique because search is fuzzy : if you search “whatever” you'll see both “wathever one” AND “whatever2” in the results … 2015-07-13 16:01 GMT+02:00 John Erling Blad <[email protected]>: > No we should not make the aliases unique, the reason aliases are > useful is because they are _not_ unique. > Add versioning to labels, that is the only real solution. > > There are books on the topic, and also some dr thesis. I don't think > we should create anything ad hoc for this. Go for a proven solution. > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Kinzler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 13.07.2015 um 13:00 schrieb Ricordisamoa: > >> I agree too. > >> Also note that property IDs are language-neutral, unlike english names > of > >> templates, magic words, etc. > > > > As I said: if there is broad conseus to only use P-numbers to refer to > > properties, fine with me (note however that Lydia disagrees, and it's her > > decision). I like the idea of having the option of accessing properties > via > > localized names, but if there is no demand for this possibility, and > it's a pain > > to implement, I won't complain about dropping support for that. > > > > But *if* we allow access to properties via localized unique labels (as we > > currently do), then we really *should* allow the same via unique > aliases, so > > property labels can be chanegd without breaking stuff. > > > > -- > > 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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