Am 15.06.2015 um 20:09 schrieb Thad Guidry:
Federico,
As a Data Architect, I only care about individual Entities. I do not care what Wikidata needs internal for coordination with Wikipedia, etc...
There is no contradiction...as long as Wikdata provides a good mechanism for me to filter out non-entities. Ideally an API or Search parameter that says "give me only 'real' items / entites".
I would also like that, for convenience.
But conceptually, Wikipedia pages are things in the world, and are "real" in that sense. So if we don't want to introduce a nasty hack into the data model, you'd have to do this by saying "exclude everything that is an instance of MediaWiki page (Q15474042)". That's a rather expensive operation...
Can you think of a way to do this nicely, that doesn't need special case hacks in the software?