Wikidata:Property proposal/CIA World Factbook Country ID
CIA World Factbook Country ID edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
Not done
| Description | identifier that the CIA World Factbook uses to reference individual countries. |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | countries |
| Example | Iran (Q794) → ir |
| Formatter URL | https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/$1.html |
- Motivation
The CIA World Factbook is a source of quality data that's in the public domain. ChristianKl (talk) 12:01, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
- Discussion
- Question: are these not just ISO 3166-2 code (P300) codes? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:32, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Pigsonthewing: They are usually the same as FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions) (P901), but not always. See en:Template:CIA_World_Factbook_link/doc#Notes_on_codes.--GZWDer (talk) 18:10, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- @ChristianKl, Pigsonthewing, GZWDer: no support indicated and no activity for over 3 months, so I've marked this as
Not done. If you want to revive this proposal, you can reset the status here, I don't think a new proposal would be necessary. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:46, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
