Thank you Federico!

The link to the manual you provided was exactly what I was looking for.
I also see the point in using a link to the versioned representation of
an article. However, I think I am fine with the page ID under this
circumstances.

Thank you,
Tom

Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2020, 15:53 +0300 schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
> Schilling, Tom, 14/04/20 14:30:
> > So the question arises if a usage
> > of pageID would not be a better solution in context of linked open
> > data?
> 
> Yes, it would be. We use it already for permalinks in Wikimedia
> Commons 
> attribution strings and in Meta-Wiki pages.
> 
> > Are there any concerns why this procedure could be a particularily
> > bad
> > idea? Is the pageID in this case a persistent identifier for the
> > page
> > on wikipedia?
> 
> It's not completely persistent, it can be lost. It's relatively rare 
> though, and those cases may not matter to you.
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_table#page_id>
> 
> I don't recommend it, but a more permanent ID is the oldid or
> rev_id, 
> unless that revision is deleted. One advantage would be that it
> records 
> what version of the page you consulted; later versions could change
> the 
> topic of the page. It can also be used for some forms of links to
> the 
> *page* without further redirection, for instance the page history:
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/?oldid=3777687&action=history>
> 
> Federico
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