In the MVP of federated properties, only remote properties can be used when federation is enabled. Local properties are not supported and will cause issues [See T255404]. Changes to the aliases, description, and/or label of a federated property should therefore only be possible on the source Wiki.
There are four special pages that interact with both items and properties in Wikibase, all of which have misleading names when federation is enabled:
* Special:SetAliases ("Set Item/Property aliases")
* Special:SetDescription ("Set Item/Property description")
* Special:SetLabel ("Set Item/Property label")
* Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases ("Set Item/Property label, description and aliases")
See also T253863 for the Commons version of this issue wherein the page names mention too few entity types rather than too many.
**Options**
# Rename the pages to "Set Entity [description, label, aliases]" -- this would be in line with Wikidata special pages like EntitiesWithoutDescription
# Make pages more flexible and display the names of enabled entity types that have fingerprints and can be used with the page
**Initial Estimation**: 8 SPs