alaa_wmde added a comment.
hey @JoeWalsh We had a brief discussion about this in Wikidata team. In terms of solutions, another option we thought of, in addition to adding a parameter to `wbgetentities`, is to introduce another endpoint, say `wbgetentitiesfordisplay`, that provides textual representations (maybe only labels, maybe more aliases ... etc) for any entities that are part of the response. We would like to understand the size of the issue and the value of such a feature, esp. that it might not be that cheap to develop and maintain. Would you be able to share with us some use-cases , is the size of the problem it is trying to solve. Useful numbers/details can be: - how many use-cases are there where wbgetentities response is used directly to display labels of linked/related entities, requiring a second request to get those labels? - how big (nr. of entities) is a typical second request to get labels of linked/related entities? - how complicated does the second request make the client dealing with it? - is the second request a complete blocker in any of those use-cases? - any useful links to existing tasks of work-arounds for or discussions of this issue in other projects? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224678 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: alaa_wmde Cc: alaa_wmde, Mholloway, Aklapper, JoeWalsh, darthmon_wmde, Premeditated, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, Sharvaniharan, schoenbaechler, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, cmadeo, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Dbrant, Jdforrester-WMF, Mbch331
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