Hoi,
I did appreciate that we are talking per language. When properties are to
be unique and you do this for computing reasons and do not accept that
languages are not their for your convenience, you will hit problems.
My question, you have always known that Wikidata is multi language.. What
research did you do to establish that you CAN make this requirement in the
first place?
Technically there is no problem disambiguating. People are really good
understanding what a property means based on context. Machines do not care
for labels (really)..
Thanks,
GerardM
On 8 July 2015 at 10:27, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Am 08.07.2015 um 09:45 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
Given that we only support 280+ languages, I am fairly certain that this
restriction will bite us. I strongly urge you to allow for it but
monitor for it
and see what can be done.
Property labels are unique per language, not globally. They always have
been.
Properties can be accessed by their name (label) in wikitext, so they have
to be
unique.
We now want to make it possibel to also access properties by their alias
(otherwise, changing a property label will break all pages that have been
using
it). This requires property aliases to also be unique per language.
--
Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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