Wikidata:Property proposal/LGD Village Code

‎LGD Village Code

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: LGD Village Code (P12745) (Talk and documentation)

Description	code used for Villages by the Local Government Directory, a website run by the Government of India, which maintains directory of rural and urban local governments in India and their political territorial entities.
Represents	local government in India (Q13011949)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	village in India (Q56436498)
Allowed values	\d{1,6}
Example 1	Thirumalgiri (Q196333) -> 576568
Example 2	Tumlong (Q1325111) -> 260965
Example 3	Sirsa (Q1797298) -> 570542
Source	https://lgdirectory.gov.in
Planned use	convert existing LGD local body code (P6425) on instances of village in India (Q56436498) to this property. Current count is at 77361. Some more entities might be added as and when they are located.
Number of IDs in source	664838
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://lgdirectory.gov.in/globalviewVillageDetail.do?globalvillageId=$1
See also	LGD local body code (P6425), LGD Block Code (P12717), Indian census area code (2011) (P5578)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes
Wikidata project	WikiProject India (Q11037573)

Motivation

The pre-existing "LGD local body code" property which is used for various types of Indian administrative entities like states/districts/subdistricts has a couple of problems. Firstly the collision problem, there can be collision across various entity types( a state LGD code can be the same of another district's LGD code ). Secondly, there is also a problem where any block of West Bengal has 2 LGD codes, one as subdistrict and another as a block, this breaks the single value constraint. Creation of separate LGD State or UT code, LGD District Code, LGD Subdistrict Code, LGD Block Code etc would alleviate these problems. LGD Village Code is one of the separate identifiers which is to be used only for the Village entities. RamSeraph (talk) 12:35, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

Vladimir Alexiev Jonathan Groß Andy Mabbett Jneubert Sic19 Wikidelo ArthurPSmith PKM Ettorerizza Fuzheado Daniel Mietchen Iwan.Aucamp Epìdosis Sotho Tal Ker Bargioni Carlobia Pablo Busatto Matlin Msuicat Uomovariabile Silva Selva 1-Byte Alessandra.Moi CamelCaseNick Songceci moz AhavaCohen Kolja21 RShigapov Jason.nlw MasterRus21thCentury Newt713 Pierre Tribhou Ahatd JordanTimothyJames Silviafanti Back ache AfricanLibrarian M.roszkowski Rhagfyr 沈澄心 MrBenjo S.v.Mering

Notified participants of WikiProject Authority control Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 19:37, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

•  Support. I recommend using LGD Census Village Code to avoid ambiguity, as village is used for big and small villages. LGD village panchayat code also would be needed.--Arjunaraoc (talk) 08:40, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

  Existing LGD local body code (P6425) will be used for all local bodies including Gram Panchayats. The id space has been checked for collisions. It looks fine. RamSeraph (talk) 14:25, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

•  Support Back ache (talk) 16:45, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
• @RamSeraph, Arjunaraoc, Back ache:  Done as LGD Village Code (P12745). Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 07:11, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

  I have created the URL match for it, haven't done the title extract pattern as they have some silly javascript mechanism for stopping you see the source and when you do hack around that its overly complex inside and "lifes to short" Back ache (talk) 10:59, 27 May 2024 (UTC)