Wikidata:Property proposal/ICTV taxnode ID
ICTV taxnode ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
| Description | code for taxon history at the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) website. |
|---|---|
| Represents | International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (Q580606) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | virus (Q808) |
| Allowed values | string of digits |
| Example 1 | Carrot mottle virus (Q5046708) → 201905268 |
| Example 2 | Measles virus (Q573943) → 201901616 |
| Example 3 | Torque teno midi virus 12 (Q18966253) → 201902549 |
| Example 4 | Xinzhou yingvirus (Q57876525) → 201906037 |
| Source | ICTV Master Species List |
| Number of IDs in source | 6590 |
| Formatter URL | https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/p/taxonomy-history?taxnode_id=$1 |
Motivation[edit]
Links to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (Q580606) website were previously made via P1076 (P1076), which has been depreciated, see discussion at project chat. The ICTV's Master Species List contains a Taxon History URL column with a taxnode_id component, that links to the virus's taxonomic history on the ICTV website. The taxnode_id is updated with each update of the master species list, but ids from previous versions of the list still link to the current history page for the virus, e.g., Xinzhou yingvirus (Q57876525) had taxnode_id 201856037 in master species list 2018v2, and taxnode_id 201906037 in list 2019v1, but both lead to the virus history on the website. I am assuming it is possible to extract this data from the spreadsheet and that an ID that is updated annually would be useful and manageable. I'm not familiar with Wikidata, but came across this issue when editing Wikipedia (see discussion here). DferDaisy (talk) 17:37, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
- This is not an external id. For the abolished genus Coronavirus (Q290805) you will find 24 different urls (MSL#1: taxnode_id=19710022 … MSL#24 taxnode_id=20081054) but none in MSL#25. The information provided is very useful of course. The first excel spreadsheet containing this "taxonnodes" is the one from 2014. --Succu (talk) 18:38, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
- If it's stable, but a new value is generated in every version (or every year?), I suppose it could still have external-id datatype. We could set the most recent one as preferred. --- Jura 07:01, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
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- @DferDaisy, Succu, Jura1:
Not done Stale proposal, no support. If proposed again please reference this discussion. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:39, 1 February 2021 (UTC) - Pretty useful IMO. The version handling can be done per Jura's suggestion. I will support a future proposal if it comes up again. --Artoria2e5 (talk) 05:54, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
