Wikidata:Property proposal/What Do They Know organisation ID

What Do They Know organisation ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID (P8167) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for an organisation in the 'What Do They Know' database
Data type	External identifier
Domain	organisations
Allowed values	[a-z0-9]+(\-[a-z0-9]+)*
Example 1	Birmingham City Council (Q4916650) → birmingham_city_council
Example 2	Coventry University (Q1138080) → coventry_university
Example 3	West Midlands Fire Service (Q7985942) → west_midlands_fire_service
Source	https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/list/all
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].
Number of IDs in source	24,446
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	Mix'n'Match

Motivation

What Do They Know is a service, run by MySociety, a non-profit organisation. It encourages, facilitates and documents Freedom of Information requests to public bodies in the United Kingdom (including records for requests made to bodies that are now defunct). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:50, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support Sure, though it seems limited to UK (government?) orgs? ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:09, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
  • "Public bodies in the United Kingdom", as I said above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:53, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
• @Pigsonthewing, ArthurPSmith:  Done as WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID (P8167). Thierry Caro (talk) 14:28, 3 May 2020 (UTC)