On 4 July 2012 15:40, Michael Smethurst michael.smethurst@bbc.co.uk wrote: "Aesthetic concerns about uris tend to make me shiver :-)"
As a side note: I believe the point about semantic, human-intelligable Wikipedia-Style URIs and Page identifiers is that they allow DEBUGGING. Wikipedia uses non-opaque Identifiers for the same reason that programmers tend to write code with "Ticket.VoucherID" rather than "T12321.A237423".
In my observation, numeric-URI-based systems like Drupal tend to have minimal Links inside their content pages (i.e. beyond the menu system), mediawiki-based system tend to have hundreds of links inside their content. I believe this is so because links inside Drupal pages usually point to something like http://drupal.org/node/21947/ which makes it impossible for humans to easily check whether this is an intentional or erroneous link.
There are certainly areas where software can completely eliminate the need for humans to check links; in these cases opaque links are desirable. The question is:
Which is the case for Wikidata?
Gregor