Nicolas VIGNERON, 26/07/2015 18:41:
Label are indeed unique but you can add as many alias as you want (see french label on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3533061 ). You just need to choose a primary one, is it a problem ?
Yes it is a potential problem, think of name/label "Municipio" or "Duomo". The label could be made unique by adding the name of the institution somewhere, of course; no idea whether that's accepted, surely it's ugly (and a maintenance burden).
Why on Earth would someone like to tell nothing but the name ? A lot of properties are very easy to add (P31, P17, P1435, P131, etc.) ; plus, there is some semi-automatic tools to to that « en masse ».
The only thing we know about the items we can from institutions is that they were given by the institution. If this gives us a P31 statement or other for free, that might be something; otherwise, we have nothing to tell.
> 4) it must be as easy to add coordinates to multiple items as it is with an > on-wiki table; Why?Can't https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php do that ? (QuickStatements is a wonderful tool but I struggle a little to use it to its full extent).
Sounds unlikely. The user would need to produce a list of "Q#\tName\tP#\t", then manually enter the coordinates, then remove the name with a regex, then paste into the interface. Even my wikibase_csv.py script is easier than that. :) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/166629/
On a wiki table, you just edit the whole table at once. If the thing was moved to Wikidata, we'd probably need some ad hoc tool to add coordinates to a list of items, if there isn't one yet.
Nemo