Hoi,

The drawbacks are that you make assumptions about languages. Also having localised names prevents the copying of functionality from one to the other. So I would not use it, I would show a localised name and its desctription but store the property identifier. Text in this is a service not to be relied upon.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 12 July 2015 at 00:35, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Am 11.07.2015 um 23:21 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
> Hoi,
> If none of this is visible to users, the whole point of names of properties are
> senseless. Why have them in the first place and prevent this whole issue by
> using the property identifier itself.

So, being able to use a localized name to refer to a property in wikitext is not
useful?

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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer

Wikimedia Deutschland
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