On 26 July 2015 at 17:38, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Andy Mabbett, 26/07/2015 18:28:
- the name of the object may not be unique hence we may be unable to
satisfy Wikidata requirements on label/description uniqueness,
Wikidata does not require unique names.
If so, please fix the docs. "Uniqueness for a combination of a label and a description is a hard constraint that must be satisfied before a change can be saved." https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary
We're at cross purposes. I read the slash in your "label/description" as "or", you mean"and". Achieving a unique combination of label AND description should not be beyond your resources.
Consider:
Label: St John's Church Description: A church in East Birmingham
Label: St John's Church Description: A church in North Birmingham
- it must be fine to create items that contain no information other than
the name;
No, this is not OK (and they may be deleted); but nor is it necessary.
How so? We often don't know more than the name-
You know that it's (say) a building or a protected monument, or both.
- it must be as easy to add coordinates to multiple items as it is with
an on-wiki table;
Why?
Because that's the process used to add coordinates.
That's a circular argument, and does not answer my question.
- it must be easy to publish new groups of items on the go, because the
list is built gradually (and very slowly) as we get new authorisations;
It is.
Needs to be verified with those who maintain the list (i.e. Cristian Cenci and WMIT secretariat).
No: it is. This is inarguable. I have done it, as have many others.
This is, I believe, possible. For example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Wikidata_lists/Items_with...
is built by a bot.
That's a very trivial query, on WDQ just claim[496]. The query I described is way more complex.
The principles apply.