Wikidata:Property proposal/EmacsWiki ID

EmacsWiki ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Not done

Description	identifier for an article on EmacsWiki.org
Data type	External identifier
Domain	item
Allowed values	.+
Example 1	Emacs Lisp (Q1334586) → EmacsLisp
Example 2	Emacspeak (Q5368763) → EmacSpeak
Example 3	Emacspeak (Q5368763) → EmacsHabla(Emacspeak)
Example 4	Q20072206 → EmacsWiki
Example 5	Org-mode (Q307228) → OrgMode
Source	https://www.emacswiki.org/
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/$1

Motivation[edit]

It will allow to link items about Emacs to their article in emacswiki.org. One issue is how to deal with different languages of the same EmacsWiki article: lists each localised article as a different value of the property as shown in examples 2 and 3? I set the allowed values to ".*" because I don't know if there are forbidden symbols that can't be used in emacswiki.org article titles. Lore.mazza004 (talk) 19:15, 8 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Support David (talk) 06:17, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment How many IDs are we talking about here? And which proportion would you say warrant a Wikidata entry? Trying to determine whether this would not better be served by something like described at URL (P973) :-) Jean-Fred (talk) 20:53, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I am an avid emacs user and that site is a great source of knowledge, but its structure is encyclopedic, not a list of items, so it's not suitable for linking from WD. Eg if you look a t https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SiteMap, the majority of pages (eg Learning Emacs, Learn Emacs Lisp) are not linkable. Very specific pages that describe various ways or packages applicable to a topic (eg Spelling, Completion) are also not linkable. Pages that describe a single piece of code that however is not a package, are also not linkable, eg https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoInsertHeaderGuards.