Wikidata:Property proposal/GoodReads author ID
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GoodReads author ID[edit]
| Description | identifier of an author, in the GoodReads.com website |
|---|---|
| Represents | Goodreads (Q2359213) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | authors |
| Allowed values | valid GoodReads URL slugs, for URLs including "/author/show/" |
| Example | Tim Berners-Lee (Q80) → 428754.Tim_Berners_Lee |
| Source | http://www.goodreads.com/ |
| Formatter URL | http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/$1 |
| Robot and gadget jobs | possible |
- Motivation
GoodReads is a popular book review and recommendation website. Author profiles already link to Wikipedia. See also Wikidata:Property proposal/GoodReads book ID. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:43, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- Discussion
Support This property will provide an identifier for many authors who do not feature in the authority files that we already use. Sic19 (talk) 22:17, 11 July 2016 (UTC)- Support I think this is a good idea, GoodReads is a good source. However, I think the ID is just the numeric value (428754 in the case of Tim Berners Lee). You can put anything you like after the number and a '.' and it goes to the same web page. Is there a page anywhere explaining the ID, how it is set and used? ArthurPSmith (talk) 20:23, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing, Sic19, ArthurPSmith: 
Done It seems that all urls starting with http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/428754 redirect to http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/428754.Tim_Berners_Lee, so keeping "428754.Tim_Berners_Lee" as the ID. Now Goodreads author ID (P2963). Lymantria (talk) 05:31, 13 July 2016 (UTC)