Citiranje James Heald <j.he...@ucl.ac.uk>: > On 22/10/2014 14:23, Smolenski Nikola wrote: > > Citiranje James Heald <j.he...@ucl.ac.uk>: > >> (1) There would be no change to the item structure on Wikidata in any > >> way -- no change to the values of any of the item properties -- only > >> some extra sitelinks. > >> > >> So I don't see *why* you think there would be any risk to Wikidata's > >> "own integrity". > > > > Interestingly how no one mentions (or have I missed it?) what to me seems > to be > > the biggest problem, and that is the possibility that multiple Wikidata > items > > link to a single Wikipedia article. > > > > If sitelinks to redirects are ever implemented, it would be imperative that > it > > is checked that no two redirects lead to the same place. > > It's no problem if multiple redirects link to the same place. > > For example, on en-wiki, we have > Luke Havell (redirect) -> Havell family > Robert Havell (redirect) -> Havell family > Daniel Havell (redirect) -> Havell family > etc > > It's no problem if we have different items > Q(Luke Havell) -> Luke Havell (redirect) > Q(Robert Havell) -> Robert Havell (redirect) > Q(Daniel Havell) -> Daniel Havell (redirect) > > different items, for different people, sitelinked to different places on > en-wiki, that happen to be redirects.
All right, that may not be a big problem. However, it would be a big problem if we have: Q(Coat of Arms of Novi Sad) -> Coat of Arms of Novi Sad -> Novi Sad Q(something) -> Coat of arms of Novi Sad -> Novi Sad Q(something) -> Coat of arms of novi sad -> Novi Sad _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
