[Developers] GUIDs considered harmful

[Will Moffat]

Dear Metaweb developers,

I wrote a bookmarklet for injecting Freebase content into other websites.
You can see its output on this Gaia-Online forum:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31225865

Unfortunately the links back to Freebase.com topics are broken. Gaia
uses a redirect script that barfs on both '#' and the escaped form
'%23'

Could Freebase.com provide another entry point? Something like
freebase.com/view/8411f1
would be so much better than
freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f80000000008411f1

Of course, this would be less of an issue if we had human-readable
IDs. Is this happening sometime soon? All the GUID stuff makes me feel
like I'm editing a Windows Registry . Takes the fun out of Freebasing
;-)

regards,
--Will