Hoi,
You do not get it. There are many properties. Consequently the scale of
things is substantially different. It has been demonstrated that languages
will have homonyms and consequently it is NOT a good idea to use labels or
whatever you call them for properties. You can use them as long as
internally you use the P-number. You can use a text as long as the
combination of label and description is unique. This combination may be
useful.
At the same time be aware that property labels will be wrong and will need
to be changed at a later date. When this presents a problem for the
comparison with external sources, it is tough. It is best to indicate this
from the start.
The argument about what happens in MediaWiki is secondary. And sorry that
not everyone cares or knows about that in your way. The point is very much
that at the scale of thousands and thousands of properties it does not
scale. This point has been made plenty of times by now.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 12 July 2015 at 15:08, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de>
wrote:
Am 12.07.2015 um 12:52 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
Sorry but this reaction is beneath you.
Sorry for the annoyed tone.
But I'm quite serious about the questions I asked.
We localize magic words, namespaces, and template names. These are not
visible
to users, the localization is done for conveniance of people editing
wikitext.
So why should we not do the same with property names? What's the
difference?
And, if that localization gets in the way of portability as you argue, and
is
not relevant to the people who use these features, why don't we get rid of
them?
I do think that allowing access via (optionaly!) localized names is
useful. But
if it's not wanted/needed, it's fine with me, it would save me quite a bit
of
work. But I think that we should be consistent about it.
--
Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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