It is a feature. The reason for that is that in the Wikipedias when you access the data you can't use the property names otherwise - they have to be unique. So in order to be able to write {{#property:capital}}, the capital property needs to be unique (and a {{#property:p25}} we considered to be unacceptable usability-wise).

That is why we decided that property labels need to be unique (per language). If there are better ways to solve that problem, we are all ears.

Cheers,
Denny


2013/2/6 Dennis Tobar <dennis.tobar@gmail.com>
Hi:

As we know, two properties may have the same "name". In Spanish we call "género" to two topics: gender (P21) and genus (P74). The first is related to sex and second to taxonomic categoy. So, if we call both as "género", the site doesn't allow it (Edit not allowed: Otra propiedad (21) ya tiene la etiqueta "género" asociada con el código de idioma es)

Is it any bug or feature?

Regards


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave@culture-libre.org> wrote:
Le 2013-02-05 15:58, Lydia Pintscher a écrit :

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Nicholas Humfrey
<nicholas.humfrey@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
This is fantastic :) you are making amazingly fast progress!

Thank you!

I have been trying to assign the 'is a' property to David Cameron:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192

And make him a Politician:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955

But it doesn't seem to let me select 'Politician' in the value field. How
is the list of allowed values defined?

I just set this. This is possible.
There is no list of allowed values. All existing items are allowed if
it is a property of type item.

About relation names, 'is a' is vague, isn't it? I mean, Mr. Cameron may have political activities today, and make something else tomorrow, as he may used to do something else before. So wouldn't be interested to give more accurate information, like he have been UK prime minister since 11 may 2010 (and adding information on end date of phenomena when possible, which is not the case here). And then you may add prime minister in a "political role" category.

Now it all depends on granularity wikidata is aiming to.

Cheers
Mathieu
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