daniel added a comment.

In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101752#1349549, @JeroenDeDauw wrote:

> What are the concrete usecases we have for this now?


3rd party wikis using Wikidata items as unit identifiers.

> Are you suggesting to add a URI to EntityId or to create a derivative that 
> has one?


A derivative, e.g. ExternalEntityId or EntityUri.

> My main concern with adding such functionality is that it very likely will be 
> a breaking change we should be quite careful with. It'll be easy to make in 
> Wikibase DataModel, though needs caution wherever EntityId is used due to its 
> contract change.


I see no breaking change nor a contract change. That could happen if we allow 
loading full entities from an external source. But for now, this could simply 
by  new type of EntityId.


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