Hoi,
Sorry it does not wash with me. When you look at the current user interface
it is crummy. It is not informative and I am grateful for Magnus to have
started with the Reasonator. When your argument is that the current UI does
not and is not able to support more complex logic for labels I agree. It
does not.
At this moment in time the only logic supported is on the level of
statements. When your argument is that this is what we can safely support,
I understand and I can live with it for now. When you mean to argue that
this should suffice, I disagree totally with you.
At this moment there is a start of having "badges". They are at this stage
basic information on the article level. It demonstrates that we CAN have
information that is beyond statements. It is arguably not sufficient, an
argument made in bug 40810#c38.
When Wiktionary is to be integrated, labels are what Wiktionary is about.
This should be obvious, The argument is that we can leave labels for now.
It requires revisiting in the not to far off future.
NB Do not read into this that I do not value or appreciate the development
done by the Wikidata team. What they do is amazing; get a project running
that is actually useful and slowly but surely expand its scope. It is a
project that shows an increase in people having an active interest. In my
opinion Wikidata is a necessary part of the evolution of the Wikimedia
Foundations projects. The impact it is having and will have has not
registered in most peoples mind.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 8 March 2014 01:34, Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wikidata labels are simple. This is due to the
necessities of the project.
We need one single label to display. Having Wikidata labels with ranks,
qualifieres, sources, etc. simply would not work in the UI.
Labels and names in reality are indeed extremely complex. But as already
pointed out, this kind of information can be expressed with Statements, and
we already have properties to do so and will probably get more such
properties when the multi- and monolingual text properties get developed.
So, yes, Gerard, Daniel would be wrong if he would say that labels are
simple in the world. But that is not what he said. He was simply referring
to labels as they are already implemented in Wikidata, and that serve a
very specific purpose - and for these, he is absolutely right to say that
ranks do not apply for them.
The only purpose of labels and descriptions is to provide identifying
information and to provide something to display for an item. The only
purpose for aliases is to increase recall for search. I would consider
having an alias containing a frequent typo absolutely OK, if it helps
people find that item. They don't have to be right. They don't have to be
sourced. They have to be useful.
Statements on the other hand contain the actual content of Wikidata. And
those have ranks, qualifiers, sources, etc. Statemnt can contain historical
names of cities, and say from when to when they were used. Queries can then
some day use this information and display it within the context of a
specific query. But that is not what Wikidata labels are there for.
I hope that makes sense.
On Fri Mar 07 2014 at 12:01:32 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
The name was Batavia at that time in any language.
The issue is that when you fudge information in this way, you can not
have proper queries. This is why Daniel is wrong and the notion that labels
are simple needs to be revisited. It is not rare at all and it exists in
many domains. This is why it is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 March 2014 19:31, Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Use 'Birth name (P513)' (string datatype)
for Cassius Clay or 'Official
name' (Proposed property with monolingual text datatype) for Batavia - with
date qualifiers.
Joe
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
So how do I indicate that up to a particular date Jakarta was called
Batavia ? Muhammed Ali was called Cassius Clay ? There is no discussion
about it. All there is an (potentially perceived) inability to use
appropriate labels at will.
Labels are not simple.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 6 March 2014 17:07, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de>wrote;wrote:
> Am 06.03.2014 16:27, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
> > Hoi,
> > I hope this will be revisited. Many items change there name and
> dependent on a
> > date they or it are called differently.
>
> If the name is something that is changed, debated, or otherwise a
> subject of
> discussion, create a statement using an appropriate property. The
> point of
> having labels is precisely that they are simple.
>
> -- daniel
>
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