As here <http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary#E> entity is a page on mediawiki view but this page (or you can call it entity) can be an item or property
Best On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com>wrote: > Sk!d, of course if you ask for multiple items, you get multiple items. My > question is the difference between MediaWiki concept of a "page", and the > wikidata concept of an entity, specifically relating to items and > properties (not queries). Are these concepts interchangeable? Is > one MediaWiki page the same as one wikidata item, and have one-to-one > mapping? > > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:41 AM, swuensch <swuen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It is wbgetentitie*s* requests like: >> https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q219937|Q42&format=jsonfmgive >> you two entities Q219937 and Q42. >> >> Sk!d >> >> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Yuri Astrakhan >> <yuriastrak...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> During an IRC discussion, I was told that a page in namespace 0 like >>> Q219937 <http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219937> does not necessarily >>> have a one-to-one relationship with an entity like "Bonnie and Clyde". >>> >>> wbgetentities<http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q219937&format=jsonfm> >>> API >>> call gives this: >>> >>> "entities": { >>> "q219937": { >>> "pageid": 214789, >>> "ns": 0, >>> "title": "Q219937", >>> "lastrevid": 7969610, >>> "modified": "2013-02-27T09:17:25Z", >>> "id": "q219937", >>> "type": "item", >>> "aliases": { >>> ...... >>> >>> How is it possible to have more than one entity in one wiki page >>> titled Q219937, if the entity id is the same as page title? In what cases >>> would it be used? Is that a needed extra complexity? >>> >>> In the case of Bonnie and Clyde (one wikipage in language A vs two >>> wikipages in B), wikidata can have three entities with links to static >>> redirects, apparently solving the need of one-to-many. >>> >>> I am only considering item entities (ns:0), since query pages will >>> obviously have more than one entity associated with them. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Severin Wünsch* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Amir
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