2015-07-26 18:38 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com>:

Andy Mabbett, 26/07/2015 18:28:

1) 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

This doc is right but you can use aliases.

3) 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-

Did you have an example?

I find it hard to believe, can't you at least you can say where it is (at the minimum the country and idealy the city, the coordinates, etc.).

4) 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.

6) 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).

This is, I believe, possible. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Wikidata_lists/Items_with_ORCIDs

is built by a bot.

That's a very trivial query, on WDQ just claim[496]. The query I described is way more complex.

Can't Lua module deal with more complex query?

Cdlt, ~nicolas