[Wiki Loves Monuments] Moving monuments database to Wikidata

Nicolas VIGNERON vigneron.nicolas at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 18:33:50 UTC 2015


2015-07-26 20:21 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>:

> On 26 July 2015 at 17:41, Nicolas VIGNERON <vigneron.nicolas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 2015-07-26 18:28 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>:
> >>
> >> On 26 July 2015 at 16:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > A way can be found, but there are multiple issues to solve:
> >> > 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.
>
> > Label are indeed unique but you can add as many alias as you want
>
> No they are not. Both Q915614 and Q19654888 have the (en) label "St
> Paul's Church".


Yeah, it's probably my french, sorry...

In French, en:single and en:unique are both commonly translated as
fr:unique...

What I mean is : there is one and only one label per item (which is called
unique in french but apparently not in english ; sorry again).

Cdlt, ~nicolas
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