Wikidata:Property proposal/MINEDEX

MINEDEX project ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: MINEDEX project ID (P10671) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Register of the Western Australian Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
Data type	External identifier
Domain	mine (Q820477)
Allowed values	([a-f\d]{8}-[a-f\d]{4}-[a-f\d]{4}-[a-f\d]{4}-[a-f\d]{12})
Example 1	Agnew Gold Mine (Q4693180) → 7354e345-ca95-44ad-a82c-17e812f2cb91
Example 2	South Kalgoorlie Gold Mine (Q7567590) → 72795767-1009-44ca-aaac-ef19cac56e95
Example 3	Beta Hunt Mine (Q56557473) → 01ff27a-c801-4a08-85c1-fadaa647c4be
Source	https://minedex.dmirs.wa.gov.au/Web/home
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].
Planned use	As a first step, add the MINEDEX entry for each mine in Western Australia with an article on the English Wikipedia or which are notable enough to have a future article
Number of IDs in source	5,059 (Select MINEDEX in table to download complete list as an Excel spreadsheet)
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://minedex.dmirs.wa.gov.au/Web/projects/details/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	yes

Motivation

The MINEDEX register is invaluable when identifying mines in Western Australia, their precise coordinates, owners, commodities, key sites (e.g. process plant, individual undergrounds or surface operations), alternative or historical names and key dates, to name just a few. Calistemon (talk) 04:58, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

(Could also be expanded to: https://minedex.dmirs.wa.gov.au/Web/owners/details/$1 https://minedex.dmirs.wa.gov.au/Web/operators$1 https://minedex.dmirs.wa.gov.au/Web/sites$1)

Discussion

•  Support Looks like an interesting resource! Jean-Fred (talk) 07:03, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Thanks for proposing this! I've edited the proposal a bit, per our discussion. --99of9 (talk) 05:25, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Looks useful. MargaretRDonald (talk) 09:46, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Trade (talk) 14:27, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

• @Calistemon, Jean-Frédéric, 99of9, MargaretRDonald, Trade:  Done: MINEDEX project ID (P10671) —MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 15:45, 21 April 2022 (UTC)