Hehe, to be fair with this argument you would have to provide a concensus
that people want aliases in templates :) That's also probably five people
on a bugtracker :)

2015-07-13 17:38 GMT+02:00 Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>:

> Am 13.07.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
> > Hoi,
> > Either you accept the consensus or you don't.
>
> Where is that consensus? Five people on a mailing list is hardly
> representative.
> Is there a "do not use labels to access properties" consensus across the
> client
> sites? I'd be happy to learn about it.
>
> > Hiding behind Lydia is not graceful.
>
> I'm not hiding behind her, I'm aknowledging her prerogative as a product
> owner.
> I'd be out of line bypassing her on this.
>
> > How often is it necessary to indicate that you CAN show "localised
> names" as
> > long as they are the labels used in Wikidata and as long as they come
> witha text
> > we have the needed functionality.
>
> Sure, for display, that's fine. For widgets on wikidata, too.
> We were dicussing readability of wikitext, though.
>
> > It is just not the solution you have been looking for is it.. BUT it does
> > satisfy our and Lydia's needs. Wonderful right?
>
> Using P-numbers in wikitext is not the solution I have been looking for?
>
> If it's sufficient for the community, I'm happy with it. It means exactly
> zero
> work for me. It would allow me to throw out some not-so-pretty code. Yay!
>
> I just don't take your word for it being sufficient for the community.
>
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> Senior Software Developer
>
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