I'm picking up points from this discussion and adding them to a Trello board in https://trello.com/b/uXP9JmSP/wikimaps-gazetteer at https://trello.com/wikimaps. Feel free to participate!
Susanna
2014-03-20 15:30 GMT+02:00 Susanna Ånäs susanna.anas@gmail.com:
Andrew: I think this is key to making Wikidata suitable for a historical gazetteer. Andy was referring to changes allowing names/labels with dates. Will there be such?
Susanna
2014-03-20 15:24 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist@gmail.com:
Am 20/mar/2014 um 13:51 schrieb Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk :
Properties can have modifiers such as date, labels can't. So there's a bit of a challenge here - we would be able to construct a field that says "historic name : Warschau (date:1939-45)", but this would be shown as a historic name in Polish, German, English, Chinese...
maybe that's not a problem as this was indeed the official name in that time?
cheers, Martin