Wikidata:Property proposal/Mod DB engine ID

Mod DB game engine ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

Done: Mod DB engine ID (P11132) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier of a game engine on moddb.com
Represents	Mod DB (Q2983178)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	software framework (Q271680), software (Q7397), game engine (Q193564), game engine version (Q63533016)
Allowed values	^[a-z\d]+(\-[a-z\d]+){0,7}$ → see all matches
Example 1	Unity (Q63966) → unity
Example 2	Unreal Engine 4 (Q13156652) → unreal-engine-4
Example 3	Clausewitz Engine (Q13218581) → clausewitz-engine
Source	https://www.moddb.com/engines/
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	739 (see [1], [2])
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Implied notability	Wikidata property for an identifier that suggests notability (Q62589316)
Formatter URL	https://www.moddb.com/engines/$1
See also	Mod DB game ID (P6774), Mod DB mod ID (P8267)
Applicable "stated in"-value	Mod DB (Q2983178)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes
Wikidata project	WikiProject Video games (Q8485882)

Motivation edit

Mod DB is a moding-oriented website, so it usually contains information about engines and frameworks the games built on.

I've wrote a script that fills software engine (P408) based on Mod DB, and, as a result, I have a small matching table between Wikidata items and Mod DB slugs. I'd like to upload it to Wikidata, it feels suitable.

Notified participants of WikiProject Video games Facenapalm (talk) 12:05, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Support it would help me with Bohemia Interactive (Q890779)'s engines and Godot (Q16972633) games --Poslovitch (talk) 12:10, 18 October 2022 (UTC).[reply]
Support Absolutely, yes. I like the idea of expanding our coverage of engines. Jean-Fred (talk) 12:51, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Zache (talk) 13:03, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sir Lothar (talk) 15:06, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I found out that some of the engines have duplicate entries. For example Irrlicht Engine has: [3] and [4]. Which of them should be used in WD item? Sir Lothar (talk) 11:44, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Probably both. There would be lot of things to thing about. For instance, Mod DB has a separate entry for Unreal Development Kit (Q11252287), which is basically Unreal Engine 3 (Q13156651). Should we distinguish these, too? Facenapalm (talk) 12:00, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 15:23, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support of course, since there are very few databases containing information about game engines and any such database is more than welcome. @Facenapalm: Do you mind if I then create a catalog in Mix'n'Match for the items that haven't been matched yet? Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 01:53, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Kirilloparma, I'll be happy if you'll do that. I haven't learnt how to make Mix'n'Match catalogs yet. Facenapalm (talk) 01:58, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Facenapalm: I think that a little later I will create a short video tutorial on how to do it. There is nothing complicated, except for the process of scraping the data and re-scraping in case of catalog update. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 02:26, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Could you make a tutorial for scrabing Fandom wikis? Both the whole site and specific categories only Trade (talk) 02:09, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support --- ʂɤɲ ✉ 18:42, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Facenapalm, Poslovitch, Jean-Frédéric, Zache, Sir Lothar, Wd-Ryan: @WikiSyn: Done: Mod DB engine ID (P11132). Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 22:20, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Kirilloparma, thank you! There's something weird tho, Mod DB engine ID (P11132) for some reason acts like a string, it doesn't create a clickable link (example). Anyone knows what's the issue? Facenapalm (talk) 23:22, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Facenapalm: This is a known issue when a new property is created. The links to external identifiers will be clickable within 24-48 hours (maybe even less), so don't worry if they are not available at the moment. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 23:48, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, somehow never encountered that until now. Thanks for the reply! Facenapalm (talk) 23:51, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Facenapalm: Yeah, no problem! By the way, the links seem to be working now. You can purge one of the Wikidata items by ?action=purge command (example) in order to get the formatter URL to be recognized. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 03:20, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]