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User:Rz98/Cycling/UCI Member Federations

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The Union Cycliste Internationale (Q48663), or UCI for short, is the world governing body for cycle sport (Q2215841). This document details how its member federations are represented in Wikidata, and how to use that information in Wikidata queries to automatically extract cycling-related information from Wikidata.

Scope

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At the time of writing (January 2022), the UCI counts 201 national federations among its members (list at UCI). These national federations are grouped into five continental confederations that are themselves members of the UCI. Moreover, eight federations are associated members of a continental federation, without being UCI members. Among other things, federations have their national teams and organize national championships.

Data structures

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UCI

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The item representing the world governing body is Union Cycliste Internationale (Q48663).

  • For each national federation, there is a has part(s) (P527) statement with the federation as object and the territory as a country for sport (P1532) qualifier.
  • There is no has part(s) (P527) for confederations, in order to make it easier to retrieve the national federations.
  • The associate members of confederations are not tagged at UCI since they have no status there.

Continental confederations

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The five continental confederations possess the following statements:

National federations

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All 201 national member federations of UCI have the following statements:

Remarks:

Associated federations

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COPACI (list) and OCC (list) have a total of 8 non-voting associated member federations, all of which are dependent territories of France, the US, or the UK. These federations have no direct UCI membership, but associated confederation membership allows them to take part in regional competitions.

Associated member federations are tagged as follows:

Remarks:

Queries

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Obtaining the list of federations, worldwide:

Obtaining the members of a given confederation (with COPACI chosen as example):

Composition of the confederations, as of January 2022:

Discussion

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Process

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New membership applications are considered by the UCI Management Committee, which may grant provisional membership and submits a recommendation to the UCI Congress. The UCI Congress usually takes place once a year, on the occasion of the Road Race World Championships, and decides about definitive approval or rejection of membership applications. A similar process exists for the provisional/definitive suspension of federations, and the lifting of such suspensions.

Matching countries to federations

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An athlete's or team's affiliation is usually stated in terms of the properties country of citizenship (P27), country for sport (P1532), or country (P17), be it for a particular race or for their entire career. Where the relevant property matches a country in the above list, the athlete/team can be said to be representing the corresponding national federation. A few commonly occurring countries do not appear in the above list:

Historical federations

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There are at least five historical federations that are no longer part of UCI, but this list may not be exhaustive.

It is presently unknown whether UCI considers any existing federations as successors or continuations of those historical confederations. No tagging has been done to relate these to the UCI on Wikidata.

Moreover, the governing bodies of certain countries have changed in the past; e.g. the 2020 UCI Congress excluded the existing federations of Bulgaria, Chile, and Montenegro, and admitted new national federations for these countries (minutes). For the moment, Wikidata (and Wikipedia) treat these cases as if the names of the federations had simply changed.

Federation names

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It is difficult to establish the precise official names of the federations, or even which language versions are official, from publicly available sources. Usage on the UCI website is inconsistent, some of the smaller federations seem to change names every now and then, and in some cases (see Historical federations) one federation is replaced with another. A "best effort" was made to establish the names of the federations from either the UCI website, the confederation website, or preferrably, their own presence on the web or social media. Where no official English-language name was available, the Wikidata item for that federation was given an English label translating the original name. This is to enable practical work with these items and should not be understood as a claim that the name is official; official name (P1448) exists for that purpose.

Membership dates

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All member of (P463) respectively has part(s) (P527) statements refer to current member federations. Data on when each federation joined UCI seems to be scant, and no effort has been made to systematically collect this information. Data on recent admissions can be gotten from the minutes of the UCI Congress (link) resp. press releases (link):

Moreover, comparing the archived UCI member lists from 2009 to 2013 suggests the following admission dates (unsure, not backed by primary sources):

Third party sources:

Dependent territories

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The following countries have dependent territories that are independent members of UCI and their continental confederations; in these cases, country (P17) and country for sport (P1532) must be distinguished.

UCI vs UN membership

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Other than the aforementioned dependent territories, the following countries represented at UCI are not full members of the United Nations (Q1065):

The following nine UN member states are not represented in the UCI:

UCI, IOC, and ISO country codes

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A three-letter UCI code of cycling team (P1998) is available for all full-member federations; these were taken from the pre-existing data on national teams. These are the codes used by the UCI to identify countries in their database. They are largely identical to the IOC country code (P984), but with additions for Anguilla, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and the Vatican, which are not members of the IOC, and one exception:

Note that the UCI web site, in its list of member federations (link), deviates from the above in four more cases: British Virgin Islands (Q25305), Curaçao (Q25279), Sint Maarten (Q26273), and Mauritania (Q1025), where it mentions BVI, CUW, MAF, and MAU, respectively. However, their database instead uses IVB (IOC code), CUR (ISO code), and SXM (ISO code), and MTN (IOC code). The latter codes are therefore used by Wikidata.

Further notes: Neither UCI nor IOC codes are available for the associated-member territories. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (P297) and ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code (P298) are available for all full and associated member territories (if GB/GBR and IE/IRL are used for Great Britain (Q23666) and Ireland (Q22890), respectively); note however that ISO codes are often different from UCI/IOC codes.

Wikidata and Wikipedia

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At the time of writing (January 2022), 104 of the 209 federations have a Wikipedia article in at least one language, most of them at stub level. 94 articles have been created in the English-language Wikipedia, the French-language Wikipedia is second with 17. A "best effort" was made to locate existing articles in all versions of Wikipedia and reuse their Wikidata items. For federations without any Wikipedia article, new Wikidata items were created with information about their web and social-media outlets where available.

Query to retrieve all articles about member federations for a given Wikipedia project, with French as example.

Also, as of January 2022, the following lists of federations are up to date in the English-language version of Wikipedia:

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