[Wikidata] Wiki PageID

[Gintautas Sulskus]

Hi,

I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it always
stay unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for
any kind of information that might change over time?

Consider the following cases:
1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If at
some point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is
this correct?
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed into a
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?
3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon" with
the same ID=1?

Thanks,
Gintas

[Daniel Kinzler]

Hello Gintautas!

I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it always stay
unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for any kind of
information that might change over time?

That is indeed the idea. COntent changes, the page ID stays the same. If you
need to identify a specific state of the page, use the revision ID (aka permalink).

Note however that page IDs are considered "internal" identifiers. They are
stable, but they are not the canonical way to access or identify a page. Use the
title for that - or, in the context of Wikidata, use the entity ID.

1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If at some
point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is this correct?

Yes, page IDs survive renaming/moving the page.

2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed into a
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?

Yes, pages can become redirects.

3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon" with the
same ID=1?

Yes, pages can be moved into the category namespace.

[Jane Darnell]

Though I agree Daniel with what you wrote about redirects, we do have a
policy (I believe I have read this somewhere) that if you create a redirect
in the case of two items about the same thing, then it should always be the
older item number that survives (and the merge gadget is supposed to check
for this). Maybe that's too much detail information though. So for the
given example "Moon" was created first and thus it is "Moon" id that should
survive, whether or not the label is set to "The Moon" later.

<quote>

Yes, page IDs survive renaming/moving the page.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed into a
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?

Yes, pages can become redirects.
</quote>

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
Hello Gintautas!

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it always

stay

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for any

kind of

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
information that might change over time?

That is indeed the idea. COntent changes, the page ID stays the same. If you
need to identify a specific state of the page, use the revision ID (aka permalink).
Note however that page IDs are considered "internal" identifiers. They are
stable, but they are not the canonical way to access or identify a page. Use the
title for that - or, in the context of Wikidata, use the entity ID.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If at

some

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is

this correct?
Yes, page IDs survive renaming/moving the page.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed

into a

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?

Yes, pages can become redirects.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon"

with the

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
same ID=1?

Yes, pages can be moved into the category namespace.
--
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Principal Platform Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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[Gintautas Sulskus]

Fantastic answers Daniel and Jane! All is crystal clear now.

Thank you very much!

Best,
Gin

Post by Jane Darnell
Though I agree Daniel with what you wrote about redirects, we do have a
policy (I believe I have read this somewhere) that if you create a redirect
in the case of two items about the same thing, then it should always be the
older item number that survives (and the merge gadget is supposed to check
for this). Maybe that's too much detail information though. So for the
given example "Moon" was created first and thus it is "Moon" id that should
survive, whether or not the label is set to "The Moon" later.
<quote>
Yes, page IDs survive renaming/moving the page.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed

into a

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?

Yes, pages can become redirects.
</quote>
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Daniel Kinzler <

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
Hello Gintautas!

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it always

stay

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for

any kind of

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
information that might change over time?

That is indeed the idea. COntent changes, the page ID stays the same. If you
need to identify a specific state of the page, use the revision ID (aka permalink).
Note however that page IDs are considered "internal" identifiers. They are
stable, but they are not the canonical way to access or identify a page. Use the
title for that - or, in the context of Wikidata, use the entity ID.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If

at some

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is

this correct?
Yes, page IDs survive renaming/moving the page.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed

into a

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?

Yes, pages can become redirects.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon"

with the

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
same ID=1?

Yes, pages can be moved into the category namespace.
--
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
_______________________________________________
Wikidata mailing list
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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[Nicholas Humfrey]

Hi,

A number of years ago I was having some very frustrating times with the identifier instability in dbpedia. Two people looking up an identifier for the same concept at different times ended up with different identifiers.

So I created a proof of concept, dbpedialite, which uses Wikipedia PageIDs:
http://www.dbpedialite.org/things/87851
(At the time there was a page title edit war between Stoat and Ermine)


But now we have Wikidata – which solves this problem much better – so I should really get on and decommission dbpedialite.

What are you using Wikipedia Page IDs for? Might it be better to store the Wikidata ID and then lookup the Wikipedia page on demand?


nick.



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Date: Monday, 24 April 2017 at 15:37
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <***@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:***@lists.wikimedia.org>>
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Wiki PageID

Fantastic answers Daniel and Jane! All is crystal clear now.

Thank you very much!

Best,
Gin

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Jane Darnell <***@gmail.com<mailto:***@gmail.com>> wrote:
Though I agree Daniel with what you wrote about redirects, we do have a policy (I believe I have read this somewhere) that if you create a redirect in the case of two items about the same thing, then it should always be the older item number that survives (and the merge gadget is supposed to check for this). Maybe that's too much detail information though. So for the given example "Moon" was created first and thus it is "Moon" id that should survive, whether or not the label is set to "The Moon" later.

<quote>

Yes, page IDs survive renaming/moving the page.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed into a
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?

Yes, pages can become redirects.
</quote>

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Daniel Kinzler <***@wikimedia.de<mailto:***@wikimedia.de>> wrote:
Hello Gintautas!

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it always stay
unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for any kind of
information that might change over time?

That is indeed the idea. COntent changes, the page ID stays the same. If you
need to identify a specific state of the page, use the revision ID (aka permalink).

Note however that page IDs are considered "internal" identifiers. They are
stable, but they are not the canonical way to access or identify a page. Use the
title for that - or, in the context of Wikidata, use the entity ID.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If at some
point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is this correct?

Yes, page IDs survive renaming/moving the page.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed into a
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?

Yes, pages can become redirects.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon" with the
same ID=1?

Yes, pages can be moved into the category namespace.
--
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
It is indeed better to look up Wikipedia identifiers on demand. The
wikipedia articles associated with a Wikidata identifiers are a legacy.
Regularly Wikipedia articles are associated with different identifiers when
it is found that there is a mismatch between the different Wikipedia
article.. A good example; rose for the flower and rose for the plant..
Thanks,
GerardM

Post by Nicholas Humfrey
Hi,
A number of years ago I was having some very frustrating times with the
identifier instability in dbpedia. Two people looking up an identifier for
the same concept at different times ended up with different identifiers.
http://www.dbpedialite.org/things/87851
(At the time there was a page title edit war between Stoat and Ermine)
But now we have Wikidata – which solves this problem much better – so I
should really get on and decommission dbpedialite.
What are you using Wikipedia Page IDs for? Might it be better to store
the Wikidata ID and then lookup the Wikipedia page on demand?
nick.
Reply-To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
Date: Monday, 24 April 2017 at 15:37
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Wiki PageID
Fantastic answers Daniel and Jane! All is crystal clear now.
Thank you very much!
Best,
Gin

Post by Jane Darnell
Though I agree Daniel with what you wrote about redirects, we do have a
policy (I believe I have read this somewhere) that if you create a redirect
in the case of two items about the same thing, then it should always be the
older item number that survives (and the merge gadget is supposed to check
for this). Maybe that's too much detail information though. So for the
given example "Moon" was created first and thus it is "Moon" id that should
survive, whether or not the label is set to "The Moon" later.
<quote>
Yes, page IDs survive renaming/moving the page.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed

into a

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?

Yes, pages can become redirects.
</quote>
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Daniel Kinzler <

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
Hello Gintautas!

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
I have a couple of questions regarding the Wiki Page ID. Does it

always stay

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
unique for the page, where the page itself is just a placeholder for

any kind of

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
information that might change over time?

That is indeed the idea. COntent changes, the page ID stays the same. If you
need to identify a specific state of the page, use the revision ID (aka permalink).
Note however that page IDs are considered "internal" identifiers. They are
stable, but they are not the canonical way to access or identify a page. Use the
title for that - or, in the context of Wikidata, use the entity ID.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
1. The first time someone creates page "Moon" it is assigned ID=1. If

at some

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
point the page is renamed to "The_Moon", the ID=1 remains intact. Is

this correct?
Yes, page IDs survive renaming/moving the page.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
2. What if we have page "Moon" with ID=1. Someone creates a second-page
"The_Moon" with ID=2. Is it possible that page "Moon" is transformed

into a

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
redirect? Then, "Moon" would be redirecting to page "The_Moon"?

Yes, pages can become redirects.

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
3. Is it possible for page "Moon" to become a category "Category:Moon"

with the

Post by Gintautas Sulskus
same ID=1?

Yes, pages can be moved into the category namespace.
--
Daniel Kinzler
Principal Platform Engineer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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[Kingsley Idehen]

Post by Nicholas Humfrey
Hi,
A number of years ago I was having some very frustrating times with
the identifier instability in dbpedia. Two people looking up an
identifier for the same concept at different times ended up with
different identifiers.
http://www.dbpedialite.org/things/87851
(At the time there was a page title edit war between Stoat and Ermine)
But now we have Wikidata – which solves this problem much better – so
I should really get on and decommission dbpedialite.
What are you using Wikipedia Page IDs for? Might it be better to
store the Wikidata ID and then lookup the Wikipedia page on demand?
nick.

Hi Nick,

Please don't decommission dbpedialite, it does provide utility on other
fronts too :)
--
Regards,

Kingsley Idehen
Founder & CEO
OpenLink Software (Home Page: http://www.openlinksw.com)

Weblogs (Blogs):
Legacy Blog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/
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Profile Pages:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/kidehen
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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen

Web Identities (WebID):
Personal: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this
: http://id.myopenlink.net/DAV/home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/Public/kingsley.ttl#this

[Nicholas Humfrey]

On 26/04/2017, 15:41, "Wikidata on behalf of Kingsley Idehen"

Post by Kingsley Idehen
Hi Nick,
Please don't decommission dbpedialite, it does provide utility on other
fronts too :)

Hi Kingsley,

Could you elaborate? I was planning on turning dbpedialite into 301
redirects to Wikidata for a period of time before switching it off.


nick.



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Post by Nicholas Humfrey
On 26/04/2017, 15:41, "Wikidata on behalf of Kingsley Idehen"

Post by Kingsley Idehen
Hi Nick,
Please don't decommission dbpedialite, it does provide utility on other
fronts too :)

Hi Kingsley,
Could you elaborate? I was planning on turning dbpedialite into 301
redirects to Wikidata for a period of time before switching it off.
nick.
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Nick,

dbpedialite provides a "best practices" demonstration for:

1. Linked Data Deployment -- i.e., it supports both content-negotiation
and metadata embedded in HTML deployment options

2. Bridging across DBpedia, Wikidata, and Wikipedia -- this also
provides value to DBpedia and Wikidata with regards to cross-reference
reconcilliation.

I believe the items above remain important :)
--
Regards,

Kingsley Idehen
Founder & CEO
OpenLink Software (Home Page: http://www.openlinksw.com)

Weblogs (Blogs):
Legacy Blog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/
Blogspot Blog: http://kidehen.blogspot.com
Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@kidehen

Profile Pages:
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kidehen/
Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Kingsley-Uyi-Idehen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kidehen
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen

Web Identities (WebID):
Personal: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this
: http://id.myopenlink.net/DAV/home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/Public/kingsley.ttl#this

[Denny Vrandečić]

Aren't both ... uhm ... "use cases" supported by dbpedia proper anyway?

Post by Kingsley Idehen

Post by Nicholas Humfrey
On 26/04/2017, 15:41, "Wikidata on behalf of Kingsley Idehen"

Post by Kingsley Idehen
Hi Nick,
Please don't decommission dbpedialite, it does provide utility on other
fronts too :)

Hi Kingsley,
Could you elaborate? I was planning on turning dbpedialite into 301
redirects to Wikidata for a period of time before switching it off.
nick.
-----------------------------
http://www.bbc.co.uk

Nick,
1. Linked Data Deployment -- i.e., it supports both content-negotiation
and metadata embedded in HTML deployment options
2. Bridging across DBpedia, Wikidata, and Wikipedia -- this also
provides value to DBpedia and Wikidata with regards to cross-reference
reconcilliation.
I believe the items above remain important :)
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
Founder & CEO
OpenLink Software (Home Page: http://www.openlinksw.com)
Legacy Blog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/
Blogspot Blog: http://kidehen.blogspot.com
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kidehen/
Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Kingsley-Uyi-Idehen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kidehen
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
Personal: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this
http://id.myopenlink.net/DAV/home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/Public/kingsley.ttl#this
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[Kingsley Idehen]

Post by Denny Vrandečić
Aren't both ... uhm ... "use cases" supported by dbpedia proper anyway?

Yes, but "best practices" in a single place don't solve the problems
associated with mass appreciation and adoption. Basically, the more the
merrier!

Why? Because I don't believe in the power of one, with regards to a
Semantic Web of Linked Data.


Kingsley

Post by Denny Vrandečić

Post by Nicholas Humfrey
On 26/04/2017, 15:41, "Wikidata on behalf of Kingsley Idehen"

Post by Kingsley Idehen
Hi Nick,
Please don't decommission dbpedialite, it does provide utility

on other

Post by Nicholas Humfrey

Post by Kingsley Idehen
fronts too :)

Hi Kingsley,
Could you elaborate? I was planning on turning dbpedialite into 301
redirects to Wikidata for a period of time before switching it off.
nick.
-----------------------------
http://www.bbc.co.uk

Nick,
1. Linked Data Deployment -- i.e., it supports both
content-negotiation
and metadata embedded in HTML deployment options
2. Bridging across DBpedia, Wikidata, and Wikipedia -- this also
provides value to DBpedia and Wikidata with regards to cross-reference
reconcilliation.
I believe the items above remain important :)
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen
Founder & CEO
OpenLink Software (Home Page: http://www.openlinksw.com)
Legacy Blog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/
<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen/>
Blogspot Blog: http://kidehen.blogspot.com
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kidehen/
Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Kingsley-Uyi-Idehen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kidehen
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
Personal: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this
http://id.myopenlink.net/DAV/home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/Public/kingsley.ttl#this
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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen
Founder & CEO
OpenLink Software (Home Page: http://www.openlinksw.com)

Weblogs (Blogs):
Legacy Blog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/
Blogspot Blog: http://kidehen.blogspot.com
Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@kidehen

Profile Pages:
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kidehen/
Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Kingsley-Uyi-Idehen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kidehen
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen

Web Identities (WebID):
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: http://id.myopenlink.net/DAV/home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/Public/kingsley.ttl#this

[Nicholas Humfrey]

Hi,

I have finally got around to starting to decommission dbpedialite.org
Pages now redirect to Wikidata entity URIs.

I won't be renewing the domain name when it expires 2019-05-09.


nick.


From: Nicholas Humfrey <***@bbc.co.uk<mailto:***@bbc.co.uk>>
Date: Monday, 24 April 2017 at 15:51
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <***@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:***@lists.wikimedia.org>>
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Wiki PageID

Hi,
A number of years ago I was having some very frustrating times with the identifier instability in dbpedia. Two people looking up an identifier for the same concept at different times ended up with different identifiers.

So I created a proof of concept, dbpedialite, which uses Wikipedia PageIDs:
http://www.dbpedialite.org/things/87851
(At the time there was a page title edit war between Stoat and Ermine)


But now we have Wikidata – which solves this problem much better – so I should really get on and decommission dbpedialite.

What are you using Wikipedia Page IDs for? Might it be better to store the Wikidata ID and then lookup the Wikipedia page on demand?


nick.



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Date: Monday, 24 April 2017 at 15:37
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