Wikidata:Property proposal/Internet Game Database numeric game ID

Internet Game Database numeric game ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

   Done: Internet Game Database numeric game ID (P9043) (Talk and documentation)

Description	numeric identifier for a game on IGDB; use as qualifier for P5794 "Internet Game Database game ID"
Represents	Internet Game Database (Q20056333)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	video game (Q7889)
Allowed values	[1-9]\d+
Example 1	Super Mario Odyssey (Q28234671) → 26758
Example 2	Half-Life 2 (Q193581) → 233
Example 3	Portal 2 (Q279446) → 72
Example 4	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Q17185964) → 7346
Source	https://www.igdb.com
Planned use	I intend to write a script for my bot to import these qualifiers for all existing IGDB IDs via the IGDB API.
Number of IDs in source	Around 251,439, same as Internet Game Database game ID (P5794)
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
See also	Internet Game Database game ID (P5794)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

Currently, we only have the URL slugs from IGDB, but they're not stable and can be broken in the future if the game's name changes.

The numeric ID would be used as a qualifier to keep track of games that have been renamed. I'll write a script for my bot to automatically attach these on all existing IGDB IDs using the IGDB API. Very similar use case to Twitter (X) numeric user ID (P6552).

Note that there is no formatter URL because IGDB doesn't allow you to link to a page via the numeric ID currently. Nicereddy (talk) 18:23, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

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Notified participants of WikiProject Video games -Nicereddy (talk) 18:25, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support I have long wrestled with this problem − unstable but visible slugs ; stable but 'hidden' and unresolveable numeric IDs − and was never sure how to get the best of both worlds. The solution Nicereddy puts forwards seems the best one to me. Jean-Fred (talk) 21:23, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment “IGDB doesn't allow you to link to a page via the numeric ID currently.” actually, I read once on the Discord (as Diggr was asking) that “You can base36 encode the ID to create a short url like https://www.igdb.com/g/$1 ” − then I guess it’s sort-of-possible (with a middleman like toolforge:wikidata-externalid-url) ^_^ (I just checked with Super Mario Odyssey: ID=26758 → https://www.igdb.com/g/KNA does resolve). Jean-Fred (talk) 21:23, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

@Jean-Frédéric: we might want to make sure IGDB committed to keeping that workaround functional until a direct link to the numeric ID is possible, but that sounds like a good solution to me. Nicereddy (talk) 23:13, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

 Support If you click on the share tab on the Odyssey page, you can see the https://www.igdb.com/g/kna link. So I do not think it is a temporary workaround. A direct link would be better of course. The numeric id can also be taken from the HTML source. —Dexxor (talk) 09:08, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

•  Support --Trade (talk) 20:12, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support AntisocialRyan (talk) 02:28, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Sir Lothar (talk) 15:15, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

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•  Done @Nicereddy, Jean-Frédéric, Dexxor, Trade, AntisocialRyan, Sir Lothar: Internet Game Database numeric game ID (P9043). ‐‐1997kB (talk) 11:50, 8 January 2021 (UTC)