2015-07-13 15:24 GMT+02:00 Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de:
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.
Providing this possibility IMHO is a good thing. If it is possible to allow this kind of access to data without generating the End of the Universe, I'm all for it. Then it *will* be difficult to deal with all the problems, but I don't think this is a good reason NOT to try to implement it.