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writable file format
file format a program can create and/or write to

Description	file format a program can create and/or write to.
Represents	writable file format (Q42574058)
Associated item	WikiProject Computer Science (Q6526225)
Data type	Item
Domain	According to this template: application (Q166142) According to statements in the property: application (Q166142), software (Q7397), electronic machine (Q2858615) or software version (Q20826013) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values	file format (Q235557) (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Example	GIMP (Q8038) → eXperimental Computing Facility (Q261907) Adobe Photoshop (Q129793) → JPEG (Q2195)
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P1073 (Q65706179)
See also	readable file format (P1072)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties By value of property Most statements Fewest statements Most sitelinks Most linked wikis Total of sitelinks on items Most identifiers Fewest identifiers Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Chart by item creation date Database reports/Constraint violations/P1073 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 6,653 Main statement 6,651 >99.9% of uses Qualifier 2 <0.1% of uses
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Type “application (Q166142), software (Q7397), electronic machine (Q2858615), software version (Q20826013)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31), subclass of (P279)” with classes “application (Q166142), software (Q7397), electronic machine (Q2858615), software version (Q20826013)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1073#Type Q166142, Q7397, Q2858615, Q20826013, SPARQL

Value type “file format (Q235557), file format family (Q26085352)”: This property should use items as value that contain property “instance of (P31)”. On these, the value for instance of (P31) should be an item that uses subclass of (P279) with value file format (Q235557), file format family (Q26085352) (or a subclass thereof). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1073#Value type Q235557, Q26085352, SPARQL

Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as qualifier (Q54828449): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1073#Scope, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1073#Entity types

This property is being used by: ru:Шаблон:Карточка программы, ru:Шаблон:Программа ce:Кеп:Infobox software cv:Шаблон:Программа карточки hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Ծրագիր, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Ծրագիր արւմտ. ast:Plantía:Ficha de software ca:Plantilla:Infotaula de programari, ca:Plantilla:Infotaula de programari/prova Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Devices

Is there any reason to restrict this item to software? It looks useful for devices too, e.g., Zoom H6 Handy Recorder (Q81525088) writable file format (P1073) MP3 (Q42591). The device would contain software which actually writes the file, but it doesn't seem worth creating a separate item for such unknown software. Ghouston (talk) 05:25, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

I ran a query to see what devices this would be useful for. At the moment they account for 7 out of the 18 total constraint violations, however I was planning on adding this property to at least 11 others, and I'm sure there are loads more devices with firmware capable of writing files where this could be used. So it'd be great if appliance (Q1183543) could be added to the list of type constraints. --Aluxosm (talk) 10:57, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

@Aluxosm: I've added it to the constraints, since there were no objections, as electronic machine (Q2858615). I've also allowed subclasses as well as instances, since device models should be subclasses. I also added electronic machine (Q2858615) to Zoom H6 Handy Recorder (Q81525088), since sound recording device (Q66087652) is not a subclass of electronic device, since things like mechanical recorders using wax cylinders exist. Ghouston (talk) 04:36, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

@Ghouston: Amazing, thanks for that! Good thinking about the phonograph cylinder (Q691783) haha. That reminds me, I had thought about this a while ago; Do you think that it would be a good idea to add two new subclasses - analog sound recording device and digital sound recording device to sound recording device (Q66087652)? At the moment it's pretty flat and would save having to add electronic machine (Q2858615) on every instance. Definitely one for Help:QuickStatements either way! --Aluxosm (talk) 10:07, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

@Aluxosm: It would make sense to have such items. Often there will be Commons categories for them to link with, e.g., c:Category:Digital sound recorders, which isn't a good match for digital recording (Q2473736). Ghouston (talk) 10:35, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Useful as qualifier

I have added as qualifier (Q54828449) to the allowed scope constraint, since I find it useful with properties such as output device (P5196) to be able to state more precisely what formats are available for each output method (text, table, graph, animation etc). Sometimes similar file formats can be used for multiple outputs from the same application, in which case stating writable file format (P1073) as a main value only is insufficient to specify its purpose. In case this broadening of the scope is inappropriate or creates some unforeseen conflict, feel free to revert it as needed, but please leave an explanatory note here to let us know the reason. SM5POR (talk) 14:36, 7 November 2022 (UTC)