Remember that we are also recording the wikipedia article names in multiple languages, which may or may not be the same as the label in those languages


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:32 PM, David Cuenca <dacuetu@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:
The software shouldn't know about "special" properties. A bot could know about
them, and automatically add aliases.

Labels and aliases are acting as "special" properties, just that we cannot decide which property to use instead of the default.
Now we have to enter twice the property, for instance "title" and again as label "title", same for names, same for official names of towns, same for everything... and even more so when the monolingual datatype is available.
Yes, a bot could do that, but perhaps we should ask ourselves if to have all information twice makes sense?

Micru

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