Am 09.07.2015 um 03:12 schrieb Ricordisamoa:
> Il 08/07/2015 22:00, Daniel Kinzler ha scritto:
>> The idea was readability and internationalization.
>
> Which one is more readable and internationalized, {{#property:syntymäaika}} or
> {{#property:P569}} ?
> The former makes reading and reusing templates from other wikis much harder.

Well, yea, localizing things always makes them harder to use by people who do not
speak the respective language. I'd say the natural language name is still more
readable,
since there are probably more people who know what "syntymäaika" means than what
"P569"
means.

But I see your point, especially with regards to cross-wiki template use (if we
ever get that).

>> If there is consensus to not use human readable property names for accessing
>> data, and solely rely on IDs instead, we could indeed stop all this right now,
>> and just drop the uniqueness constraint for labels as well as for aliases of
>> properties.
>
> Yes!

Can you point to a community decision/discussion regarding this? Is the
sentiment the same across several languages?

If this feature is *really* not needed/wanted, we can of course drop it. Would
save a lot of trouble. But I'd want to be rather sure about that. After all,
even MediaWiki's magic words like #REDIRECT are localized.

On a related note: what about the "#property" bit. Should that be localized?...


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Daniel Kinzler
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