Hoi, YES !! It is almost certain that this will not consistently work for any and all languages and it will result in confusion at best. Relying on an ID is easily understood. Thanks, GerardM
On 9 July 2015 at 03:12, Ricordisamoa ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org wrote:
Il 08/07/2015 22:00, Daniel Kinzler ha scritto:
The idea was readability and internationalization.
Which one is more readable and internationalized, {{#property:syntymäaika}} or {{#property:P569}} ? The former makes reading and reusing templates from other wikis much harder.
If there is consensus to not use human readable property names for accessing data, and solely rely on IDs instead, we could indeed stop all this right now, and just drop the uniqueness constraint for labels as well as for aliases of properties.
Yes!
You are right that changing the name of a property shouldn't be as easy as it currently is. There should at least be a warning.
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