On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 09.07.2015 um 14:22 schrieb Thomas Douillard:> Substitution is a standard mechanism in MediaWiki and would achive what Gerard
needs ... for example: "{{subst:property_prime|date of birth}}" could be expanded and substituted to "{{#property:Pxxx}} <--date of birth-->" and everything would be stored in the Wikitext. What's wrong with this kind of solution exactly ? you did not elaborate on that.
There is nothing wrong with that. If people on the client wikis think this is sufficient, and the {{#property}} parser function does not need to support "named" access to properties, that would be fine with me. So far, I assumed that it would be very annoying to be forced to rely on IDs when using {{#property}}. But if that is fine with everybody, that's fine with me - supporting only P-ids there is much simpler than allowing access via labels or aliases.
Accessing only via the property's ID isn't enough. Folks, we want more usage of Wikidata on the Wikipedias and other sister projects. There'll be a few bullets we have to bite to make this happen. I am convinced this is one of them.
Cheers Lydia