On 20 March 2014 12:51, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
AIUI, currently, Wikidata can add:
- language-specific labels (ie alternative names)
- language-independent properties (strings or relationships)
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...
There's a language modifer, P407, for properties. So you'd have
historic name: Warschau date: 1939-45 language: German
(or whatever)