Wikidata:Property proposal/OpenRetro Game Database ID

OpenRetro Game Database ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: OpenRetro Game Database ID (P7683) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier in the OpenRetro Game Database
Represents	OpenRetro Game Database (Q76749431)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	video game (Q7889)
Example 1	Apidya (Q618610) → 4af14c5c-078b-5a23-a88a-052fc89e97d5
Example 2	Mortville Manor (Q2788891) → 1f94f8e7-12f9-5ef2-b74e-a774a69636e3, 1b32a942-b85f-5342-9dfa-a41ed90892a3, e6381b07-9b7e-5365-8515-0059d049db50
Example 3	Spindizzy Worlds (Q7577489) → a7ff427d-56d4-558b-9c3f-3199fe579f12 , cfcac5fb-c0e8-425d-8fc8-372080cbbcb5
Example 4	Secret of Mana (Q1800173) → c6a890b5-303c-4753-be5e-a073f190e86a
Source	https://openretro.org/
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Planned use	Mix’n’match catalogue
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://openretro.org/game/$1
See also	Hall of Light ID (P4671)

Motivation[edit]

OpenRetro Game Database (Q76749431) is an online database of video games. It started as a pure-Amiga database (before branching out in other Retro-consoles), and is cross-linked with Hall of Light (Q61170938). They also link to Mobygames, Lemon Amiga and Wikipedia. Their revamped URLs display per-platform slugs ; but the internal UIDs are perennial and easily retrievable.

Their data-model is per-platform, so potentially more than one match per Q7889 (see the above Spindizzy Worlds (Q7577489) example ; although it does not happen that often, given their focus on Amiga) and per-release (see the Mortville Manor (Q2788891) example).

Jean-Fred (talk) 19:32, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]