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 _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
