Hi all!
We are currently implementing a linked open data service linking our resources to well known authority files. In doing so we stumbled upon the usage of Wikipedia URIs in our data.
It turns out other authority files like DNB's culturegraph uses the complete title within the URI:
https://hub.culturegraph.org/entityfacts/118540238 → dewiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
[0] states, that Wikipedia URL are not persistent and can change, for example if a Person changes its name. So the question arises if a usage of pageID would not be a better solution in context of linked open data? In this context the upper link could be represented by
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2501
Are there any concerns why this procedure could be a particularily bad idea? Is the pageID in this case a persistent identifier for the page on wikipedia?
Thank you for your comments!
[0] h ttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/URI_scheme#Wikipedia_today