Hoi,

I did appreciate that we are talking per language. When properties are to be unique and you do this for computing reasons and do not accept that languages are not their for your convenience, you will hit problems.

My question, you have always known that Wikidata is multi language.. What research did you do to establish that you CAN make this requirement in the first place?

Technically there is no problem disambiguating. People are really good understanding what a property means based on context. Machines do not care for labels (really)..

Thanks,

GerardM

On 8 July 2015 at 10:27, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Am 08.07.2015 um 09:45 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
> Hoi,
> Given that we only support 280+ languages, I am fairly certain that this
> restriction will bite us. I strongly urge you to allow for it but monitor for it
> and see what can be done.

Property labels are unique per language, not globally. They always have been.
Properties can be accessed by their name (label) in wikitext, so they have to be
unique.

We now want to make it possibel to also access properties by their alias
(otherwise, changing a property label will break all pages that have been using
it). This requires property aliases to also be unique per language.

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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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