We do have a data type that supports multilingual strings.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_model#Multilingual_texts
It is obviously not implemented yet, but already we did think about this and it is in the spec. So that solution would be indeed practical.
Cheers, Denny
2012/8/15 Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs:
On 14/08/12 22:57, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:
I would prefer if the decision whether entity-identity is known or whether only a name-string or other label is known, should be left to the Wikidata editor community, and not prescribed by the software.
I'm afraid that this will not be really possible in practice, since there is no support for multilingual strings. If you want to display a mayor name in multiple languages, you will have to link to an entity.
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