Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE added a comment.
In T264086#6504783 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264086#6504783>, @Pablo-WMDE wrote: > Would it do justice to the idea of the ticket to alternatively express the concern as > >> The entity type name inside of the path is redundant as that is already encoded in the first letter of the entity id > > ? That, plus the extra complication by the use of the plural form in the URLs. (The principles <https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-rest-api-proposal/blob/0a5c00ecf8978386c1f204ab95ae73779283d544/PRINCIPLES.md#plurality> explain why singular vs. plural should be chosen consistently, but I think using singular everywhere would be simpler.) > In the envisioned use case, what would the users of those "generic entities" do next - which response schema (properties, ...) would they expect? Try to look up statements, for instance, which mostly have the same response schema between entity types. (The decision of WikibaseMediaInfo to put them under `"statements"`, not `"claims"`, has already caused some pain for tool developers: see T149410 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149410>.) Even if the schemas partially diverge, I don’t see the point in intentionally making people’s lives harder by putting them under different entry points. Just let me get the data of any entity and then I’ll see what I can do with it. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264086 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE Cc: Addshore, Pablo-WMDE, WMDE-leszek, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Aklapper, Silvan_WMDE, Akuckartz, darthmon_wmde, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Lydia_Pintscher, Mbch331
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