DVrandecic added a comment.
Thanks @Tpt for pulling me in. I checked in my own PhD thesis, as I had a short section on that, and ten years ago, when I wrote this, basically everything on the Linked Open Data Web was http: http://simia.net/download/ontology_evaluation.pdf , p.67 Fortunately, that has changed. More background can be found here: https://wiki.dnb.de/display/DINIAGKIM/HTTP+vs.+HTTPS+in+resource+identification from the SWiB18 discussion on the topic. In my opinion, I would suggest to use the chance and since we are building a new resource here, to use https from the start. It was a mistake that we didn't do that for Wikidata, which was due to the fact that Wikipedia only started offering https in 2011, and switched to it only in 2015. We are not in that situation today, and can make the right decision. I would love for Wikidata to switch, but that's a different task. So my recommendation is - which is not informed at all by possible technical constraints - to use https wherever possible, and in particular for a any new namespaces such as introduced for WCQS and the Commons data dumps to use https from the start, even though this means mixing some http and https identifiers. I would not care about consistency with the Wikidata namespaces. As said, i consider that, retroactively, a mistake, and would love to change it. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258590 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: DVrandecic Cc: Akuckartz, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Tpt, DVrandecic, CBogen, Multichill, Gehel, Aklapper, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, Namenlos314, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Jonas, Xmlizer, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, Mbch331
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