JanZerebecki added a comment.

In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86528#970857, @Snaterlicious wrote:

> Will we please convert label, description and aliases to statements then?


Yes, good idea. Although that would be a quite involved change, so it is not 
likely. Converting site links to statements would be a bit more difficult.

> That would allow setting up an entity type "unit" per installation. Having 
> such an entity configured on Wikidata, external entity selectors would not 
> require a special API endpoint but could just query for that entity type. 
> External installations would either use their own "unit" entity type or query 
> Wikidata if no local "unit" type is configured.

>  I know that would create constraints on entities (which have been forbidden 
> by PM) but defining special statements would just do the same in a more 
> unstructured way.


You could still use an item as unit that does not have those special statements.


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