Property talk:P1684

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inscription
inscriptions, markings and signatures on an object

Description	text written on an object. Widely used in Commons and in various museum databases. Inscriptions exceeding length limits should probably be stored somewhere else, perhaps in Wikisource.
Represents	inscription (Q1640824)
Data type	Monolingual text
Domain	According to this template: all sorts of artworks and other material objects According to statements in the property: work (Q386724), flag (Q14660), archaeological artifact (Q220659), device (Q1183543) and memorial stone (Q11734477) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Example	According to this template: La Liberté guidant le peuple => Eug. Delacroix 1830, in French According to statements in the property: Shugborough inscription (Q7504674) → O U O S V A V V When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Source	external reference, Wikipedia list article (either infobox or source) (note: this information should be moved to a property statement; use property source website for the property (P1896))
Robot and gadget jobs	DeltaBot does the following jobs: Change the qualifier P31 to P3831
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P1684 (Q21037844)
See also	monogram (P1543)
Lists	Items with the most statements Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the most identifier properties Items with no other statements Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history Chart by item creation date Database reports/Constraint violations/P1684
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	13,509

[create] Create a translatable help page (preferably in English) for this property to be included here

Type “work (Q386724), flag (Q14660), archaeological artifact (Q220659), device (Q1183543), memorial stone (Q11734477)”: element must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “work (Q386724), flag (Q14660), archaeological artifact (Q220659), device (Q1183543), memorial stone (Q11734477)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help) Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. List of this constraint violations: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1684#type Q386724, Q14660, Q220659, Q1183543, Q11734477, SPARQL, SPARQL (new)

Qualifiers “applies to part (P518), object has role (P3831), literal translation (P2441), author (P50), statement is subject of (P805), relative position within image (P2677), unabbreviated text (P7008)”: this property should be used only with the listed qualifiers. (Help) Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. List of this constraint violations: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1684#Allowed qualifiers, SPARQL, SPARQL (new)

This property is being used by: hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Թանգարանային նյութ, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ նկար, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ քանդակ, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Արձան, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Մետաղադրամ, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Նկար Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Language indication obligatory, that is not right.

When using this property inscription (P1684) in a declaration, a language MUST be given (otherwise the declaration can not be stored). This is not allright, not every inscription has an explicit language.

As an example: item Q2198126 has an inscription "Art Schnitger 1648 1719", that 's a name and two numbers/years. What to do, here?

Furthermore there are very many inscriptions have text in two (sometimes even more) languages, e.g.:

• text in a "local" language with a motto in Latin,
• inscriptions in bilingual areas.

Is there a solution for this problem ? --Paulbe (talk) 11:41, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

New WMF language codes available: "und", "mis", "zxx", "mul"

The following new codes are now available:

"zxx"

no linguistic content (Q22282939)

"mul"

multiple languages (Q20923490)

"und"

undetermined language (Q22282914)

"mis"

language without language code (Q22283016)

Please see phab:T72205 for further information. Thanks to the devs!
--- Jura 12:57, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

They stopped working :(
--- Jura 13:41, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Linebreaks

The datatype monolingualtext doesn't support linebreaks, tabs and other control characters. Some inscriptions are multiline. To understand the meaning of the inscription the linebreaks are important. As a surrogate for the linebreak its possible to use the slash "/"? What do you think?
--Looniverse (talk) 09:37, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Lexeme property or qualifier

Now that we have lexemes it would be nice to link to lexemes if an inscription also has a lexeme item. I would like to link for example from Headquarters of Pensionsversicherungsanstalt (Q57416663) to a lexeme "Pensionsversicherungsanstalt". There are many other buildings with inscriptions that could use a similar property. At the moment I am not sure if that should be a qualifier for inscription (P1684) or used independently. --Tobias1984 (talk) 12:49, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

full text search

Is it possible to search also for content in property. I tested out Davao City Hall historical marker (Q28937459) string 'bilang gusaling munisipal' and this does not work for me. Regards, Conny (talk) 12:51, 28 March 2019 (UTC).

qualifier instance of (P31): replacement with object has role (P3831)

As P31 should no longer be used and we have P3831 in the meantime, I made a replacement request at Wikidata:Bot_requests#Change_pq:P31_to_pq:P3831_(for_P1684). --- Jura 14:08, 21 June 2019 (UTC)