On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:54 PM Markus Kroetzsch < markus.kroetzsch@tu-dresden.de> wrote:
Doing this in Wikidata is tricky and takes time. I don't even see how to do it well (note that external tools like Reasonator or SQID would also need to implement the same smart resolution mechanism). Having several properties for the same thing just because of different ID types used does not seem very compelling either.
How about building a little external referrer service that redirects IDs to the correct resource based on their structure? This could be a simple PHP-based web service hosted on Labs. In the end, the formatter URL is just for users to click on, so as long as you end up at the right place, this little indirection is maybe no problem.
Yeah I also don't have a good solution for this case so far. IMDB is also causing issues. I think creating a service on labs is at least a good solution until we have something better built into Wikibase.
Cheers Lydia