On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:54 PM Markus Kroetzsch <
[email protected]> 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
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