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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