Introduce pages describing properties in a new namespace. One a property page, the data type needs to be specified.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Whiteboard: storypoints: 21
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- Reference
- bz38754
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T40702 API Phase 2 Design | |||
| Resolved | None | T40754 Specification draft about how property pages work | |||
| Resolved | None | T40755 Data types for Wikidata | |||
| Resolved | None | T40757 Specify implementation and maintenance of data types |
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Discussion started here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Entities_and_Attributes
Mind the data model. It has some answers already. Not all, though.
Open questions, that need to be specified, are:
- how to identify properties in a human-readable way? E.g. should labels be unique within a language, over all languages? Do we need aliases? How are they used? Ties in with the transclusion syntax discussion see bug 38703
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- Do we want to impose restrictions on the values within a property? (e.g. population should be only positive, US state should only be US states, names should not be longer than 600 characters, etc. -- are these user definable?)
- Should properties be markable as inherently multi-valued? (i.e. is it OK for a property to have several values, or does this indicate a conflict?)
- Where does documentation, discussions and rules for properties happen? Is it just the talk page? Is there an extra field with Wikitext? Is there another page associated with it, in which language? In the Help Namespace? When is that shown? How is it connected? How does the UI for that look like?