Thank you Federico!
The link to the manual you provided was exactly what I was looking for.
I also see the point in using a link to the versioned representation of
an article. However, I think I am fine with the page ID under this
circumstances.
Thank you,
Tom
Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2020, 15:53 +0300 schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
Schilling, Tom, 14/04/20 14:30:
So the question arises if a usage
of pageID would not be a better solution in context of linked open
data?
Yes, it would be. We use it already for permalinks in Wikimedia
Commons
attribution strings and in Meta-Wiki pages.
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?
It's not completely persistent, it can be lost. It's relatively rare
though, and those cases may not matter to you.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_table#page_id>
I don't recommend it, but a more permanent ID is the oldid or
rev_id,
unless that revision is deleted. One advantage would be that it
records
what version of the page you consulted; later versions could change
the
topic of the page. It can also be used for some forms of links to
the
*page* without further redirection, for instance the page history:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/?oldid=3777687&action=history>
Federico