No we should not make the aliases unique, the reason aliases are useful is because they are _not_ unique. Add versioning to labels, that is the only real solution.
There are books on the topic, and also some dr thesis. I don't think we should create anything ad hoc for this. Go for a proven solution.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 13.07.2015 um 13:00 schrieb Ricordisamoa:
I agree too. Also note that property IDs are language-neutral, unlike english names of templates, magic words, etc.
As I said: if there is broad conseus to only use P-numbers to refer to properties, fine with me (note however that Lydia disagrees, and it's her decision). I like the idea of having the option of accessing properties via localized names, but if there is no demand for this possibility, and it's a pain to implement, I won't complain about dropping support for that.
But *if* we allow access to properties via localized unique labels (as we currently do), then we really *should* allow the same via unique aliases, so property labels can be chanegd without breaking stuff.
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