Wikidata:Property proposal/ILI ID

Description	Interlingual Index identifier
Data type	External identifier
Allowed values	i[1-9]\d*
Example	dog (Q144) → i46360. keyboardist (Q1075651) → i90836
Source	CILI: the Collaborative Interlingual Index (Q37052366)
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	more than 100'000
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	http://globalwordnet.org/ili/$1
See also	Wikidata:Property proposal/WordNet ID, Wikidata:Property proposal/Wordnet synset ID

Interlingual Index is an attempt to make a hub for multiple word net (Q2594143). The mapping is available as files on GitHub: https://github.com/globalwordnet/ili and there is a Linked Open Data URI resolving at http://globalwordnet.org/ili/. It links to WordNet (Q533822) 3.0 and 3.1 identifiers. It is meant to be persistent ("ILI IDs should be persistent: we never delete, only deprecate or supercede; we should not change the meaning of the concept" [1]). Thus it seems to more general than linking to individual wordnet identifiers, such as WordNet 3.0 identifiers. Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 15:30, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:53, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Aren't regular WordNet identifiers linked using exact match (P2888) (or some other general property that isn't explicitly noted as being a WordNet identifier)? What's stopping these from being linked in the same way? Mahir256 (talk) 15:20, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, some WordNet 3.0 identifiers (475 currently, via the "wn" prefix) are being linked via exact match (P2888). There is nothing stopping anyone from using exact match (P2888) to ILI ID URIs, but I would think that having a dedicated property would be better: It is easier to query from SPARQL. The reason to focus on ILI instead of English WordNet identifiers is that ILI seem less volatile (there are three WordNet URI prefixes) and multilingual. — Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 17:14, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support interesting, yes I agree this is better than the WordNet approach we were looking at earlier. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:50, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]