Mul language
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For a lot of instances multiple languages typically have identical labels and descriptions.
As a consequence Wikidata has storage and performance problems with redundant labels and descriptions, taking up storage and memory.
Examples
[edit]- Names of persons, firstnames, lastnames → labels only to be stored for the mul language (no description); the same for aliases
- Descriptions of instances of firstnames, lastnames → should be not be stored; to be retrieved at runtime from the instance language label
Impacted functions
[edit]- Item creation, item update
- Retrieval of labels
- Pywikibot scripts
- Personal Babel registry
Wikidata project documentation
[edit]- Only the mul-label is stored (Wikidata)
- Do not store obvious item descriptions (Phabricator)