Property:Same as

The property same as informally states that the target-article of the link has the same pragmatic meaning as the current article.

TODO: All the property pages that use this to indicate they have the same meaning as a term in an external ontology should be changed either to use the special property Equivalent URI or the vocabulary import feature.

This property is also often used to indicate that two articles should be merged. Usually, it points from the deprecated article (the one that is going to vanish during merging, or become a redirect) to the one that is preferred for use. This mechanism could be used to support schema consolidation in the wiki.

Since a pair of existing ordinary pages can easily be merged (at least crudely by putting all content on one page) this relation is mainly used between relations, attributes, types, or categories. In those cases, automatic refactoring might be the only way to consistently change the annotations throughout the wiki.

Note that this relation is not interpreted semantically, i.e. relations are not treated as same for querying or marked equivalent in export. Whereas Semantic MediaWiki has some comprehension of MediaWiki #REDIRECT pages, for example Special:Browse shows properties for both.

To mention an alternative name of something that does not have a wiki page, you can use Property:Also called.

You can use Template:Duplicate annotation to flag one property as a duplicate of another; it adds this property.

[edit] See also

• owl:sameAs
• smw:Property:Equivalent URI