Manuel added a comment.
As far as I can see, external IDs are basically Strings in Wikidata. All characters are allowed, nothing is encoded. This is how we probably should treat actual IDs. The example given struggles with its encoding: "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Newa+Folk+Music"; is an URL. In URLs, the "+" is encoding " ". So the decoded ID in the URL would actually be "Newa Folk Music". If you enter "Newa Folk Music" as ID in Wikidata, everything should be fine. However, if you enter "Newa+Folk+Music" as the ID in Wikidata, the "+" will be treated as actual plus symbols. So when Wikidata creates a URL for it, it is encoding the "+" symbols to "%2B". TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280174 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Manuel Cc: Manuel, Solidest, Aklapper, Shisma, Invadibot, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Lydia_Pintscher, Mbch331
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