On 26 July 2015 at 17:38, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
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
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-
You know that it's (say) a building or a protected monument, or both.
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.
That's a circular argument, and does not answer my question.
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).
No: it is. This is inarguable. I have done it, as have many others.
That's a very trivial query, on WDQ just claim[496]. The query I described
is way more complex.
The principles apply.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk