Wikidata:Property proposal/8-bits ID

8-bits.info ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: 8-bits.info URL (P7890) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier of a video game in the 8-bits.info ddatabase
Represents	8-bits (Q83000021)
Data type	URL
Domain	video game (Q7889)
Example 1	The Return of Ishtar (Q7760408) → http://www.8-bits.info/gamelist/PC88/info/info_YMSkYrbV2BbDeAku.php, http://www.8-bits.info/gamelist/MSX2/info/info_ZKT7J92BMW4d73nv.php, http://www.8-bits.info/gamelist/X68K/info/info_08U9VVfjjtQ6vaiY.php
Example 2	Space Rogue (Q7572477) → http://www.8-bits.info/gamelist/X68K/info/info_7qxIhmXTw1KK2VME.php
Example 3	Morita no Battle Field (Q11540014) → http://www.8-bits.info/gamelist/PC88/info/info_NDea63MpuujE9mbi.php
Example 4	Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (Q1995422) → http://www.8-bits.info/gamelist/MSX2/info/info_wgFdv8HHrzDBSENB.php
Source	http://www.8-bits.info/gamelist/
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	2146
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)

Motivation

8-bits (Q83000021) is a Japanese-language database of 2146 video game (Q7889) published on MSX (Q853547), MSX 2 (Q11232203), NEC PC-8800 series (Q1338888) and Sharp X68000 (Q1758277) (I discovered it via this vgmrips resource). Couple of usage on English and Japanese Wikipedia. The data model is per-platform-realization, hence potentially more than one value for one of our Q7889 items.

The ID system is a bit annoying, as the path is prefixed with the platform. So it’d be either a composed ID like MSX2:wgFdv8HHrzDBSENB and PC88:YMSkYrbV2BbDeAku (then relying on toolforge:wikidata-externalid-url), or the full URL… Went for URL, but happy to hear otherwise :) Jean-Fred (talk) 20:33, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notified participants of WikiProject Video games

Discussion

Is there some way the label could be changed to make it clearer that it's referring to a database named "8-bits"? (This is as opposed to an identifier which is 8 bits long...) I'm concerned that the name might be confusing for some. --Yair rand (talk) 19:23, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Good point, renamed it to 8-bits.info :-) Jean-Fred (talk) 20:17, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Arbnos (talk) 16:44, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jean-Frédéric, Arbnos, Yair rand: Done: 8-bits.info URL (P7890) − Pintoch (talk) 19:36, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]