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Politics/public election
edit- Please review Wikidata:WikiProject every politician before proposing. Ping members of project using {{Ping project|every politician}}
parlament.fyi person ID
edit| Description | identifier of a person in the parlament.fyi database |
|---|---|
| Represents | parlament.fyi (Q132745256) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | human (Q5) |
| Allowed values | \d+ |
| Example 1 | Beate Meinl-Reisinger (Q15787318)→83122 |
| Example 2 | Andreas Babler (Q20030152)→23963 |
| Example 3 | Sigrid Maurer (Q1618939)→83101 |
| Source | https://www.parlament.fyi/people ; Austrian Parliament ID (P2280) |
| External links | Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt]. |
| Mix'n'match | 6907 |
| Number of IDs in source | ~400 |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Formatter URL | https://www.parlament.fyi/people/$1 |
| Country | Austria (Q40) |
| See also | Austrian Parliament ID (P2280) |
| Applicable "stated in"-value | parlament.fyi (Q132745256) |
| Single-value constraint | yes |
| Distinct-values constraint | yes |
Motivation
editI discovered this database of Austria politicians just today, as it is linked to from Meine Abgeordneten (Q132521549). It re-uses the identifiers from Austrian Parliament ID (P2280), but only a subset of these, thus warranting a separate property. I created a Mix’n’match catalogue (mixnmatch:6755), but it will likely be easier to populate through the Austrian Parliament ID (P2280). And since it links to Meine Abgeordneten (Q132521549), we can also populate that one based on this one. Jean-Fred (talk) 13:31, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
edit
Notified participants of WikiProject Austria. Samoasambia ✎ 04:26, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
Weak support I know this project from personal experience and also some background listening to Ars Boni 534. As a combined law, language, politics and computer nerd from Austria, I’m all for this new property. However, it should be noted that this is a relatively new project by a small group of enthusiasts. --Emu (talk) 11:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
Support mix'n'match catalog 6907 created. Gerwoman (talk) 05:49, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Organization
editenterprise number (Germany)
edit| Description | identifier from the German Company Register |
|---|---|
| Represents | Company Register (Q1727022) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Example 1 | ads-tec Energy GmbH (Q131460559)enterprise number (Germany)Stuttgart HRB 762810 |
| Example 2 | Opel (Q40966)enterprise number (Germany)Darmstadt HRB 91821 |
| Example 3 | Technische Werke Dresden (Q98687436)enterprise number (Germany)Dresden HRB 2422 |
| Source | https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ |
| Planned use | add code when I happen to edit an organisation, I'm not going to make a big effort myself |
| Number of IDs in source | 3.5 million[curid_125371139 1] |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Implied notability | Wikidata property for an identifier that does not imply notability (Q62589320) |
| Robot and gadget jobs | Automated checks:
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| See also | enterprise number (Belgium) (P3376), Swiss Enterprise Identification Number (P4829), Australian Registered Body Number (P3551), Québec Enterprise Number (P10503), OpenCorporates ID (P1320) |
| Applicable "stated in"-value | Company Register (Q1727022) |
| Distinct-values constraint | yes |
| Wikidata project | Wikidata:WikiProject Companies, Wikidata:WikiProject Organizations |
- ↑ https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterprises/Enterprises/Business-Register/_node.html
Motivation
editThe government-issued enterprise register seems like a useful thing to have. There are already properties for a number of similar registers (see "see also" above). I am not from Germany and I'm not particularly invested in these ID codes, but I happened to see this property was missing while I was adding a German company.
GsR = corporation register; HRA = commercial register excerpt; HRB = commercial register
These identification codes include the Register Court spelled out in full, and have an ugly category denominator which is partly abbreviations and partly spelled out. I find this extremely inelegant, but I can't help it. —M!dgard (talk) 16:21, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Discussion
edit Notified participants of WikiProject Germany
Comment I guess it was not added yet because of its complex structure. As you mentioned there are different registers (HRA, HRB, GnR, PR, VR, GsR) and the same number is issued for every type and every local register. And there is no working URL formatter. The source of the unternehmensregister.de is a private enterprise nowadays, while the website handelsregister.de is the official one. So I personally would not use it, instead I'm waiting for the new "Wirtschafts-Identifikationsnummer (W-IdNr.)" (business identification number) which the German government introduced last month and will be rolled out within the next years. But it's not implemented in any of the registers yet. This will be a unique ID for every economically active person or institution. Best --NGOgo (talk) 17:24, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
On hold Trade (talk) 12:55, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
identifiant REGAFI
edit| Description | Identifiant d'une organisation dans le Registre des agents financiers tenu par l'Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution en France (fr) – (Please translate this into English.) |
|---|---|
| Data type | Item |
| Example 1 | Credit Agricole Group (Q590952) -> 1342 |
| Example 2 | Banque Chalus (Q17621772) -> 2245 |
| Example 3 | Q130379709 -> 10063 |
| Example 4 | Q105019159 -> 16861 |
Motivation
editLe numéro REGAFI ( https://www.regafi.fr/ ) permet d'identifier une entreprise du secteur financier en France et de donner des informations officielles sur son activité et son statut légal vis-à-vis des autorités de contrôle françaises. Arpyia (talk) 11:15, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
Discussion
edit Notified participants of WikiProject France. Samoasambia ✎ 05:20, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- Comment I don't see a reason not to have this, since it's an official identifier. But to be honest I can't see much use. There is no url pattern and every institution seems to have a SIREN number (P1616). For unknown reasons, regafi.fr lets you search for the SIREN, but not for its own REGAFI ID. Best --NGOgo (WikiProject Nonprofits!) 07:00, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Lemmy instance URL
edit| Description | the Lemmy instance of/about the subject |
|---|---|
| Represents | Lemmy instance (Q120061681) |
| Data type | URL |
| Domain | item |
| Example 1 | KDE (Q1431)→https://lemmy.kde.social/ |
| Example 2 | SDF Public Access Unix System (Q2205644)→https://lemmy.sdf.org |
| Example 3 | mastodon.world (Q115329023)→https://lemmy.world |
| Source | https://lemmyverse.net/, https://join-lemmy.org/instances |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| See also | Lemmy community ID (P11947) |
Motivation
editSome organizations run their own official instances of Lemmy to host their communities. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spiral6800 (talk • contribs).
Discussion
edit- Support since Mastodon instance URL (P11810) was added. -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 16:24, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Wait until more organizations have Lemmy instances. I highly doubt this property will find use on more than 10 items currently. Dexxor (talk) 16:28, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
- Lemmy have had it's time to shine. I doubt it's going to get anymore popular than it currently is Trade (talk) 05:59, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- Support Makes sense, useful and Lemmy is early in its journey and could become much more popular. The prop could be deleted if the numbers of instances drops to a low number. --Prototyperspective (talk) 18:59, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- Getting identifiers deleted is borderline impossible atm Trade (talk) 16:18, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
leader of organization
edit| Description | This property identifies the top executive leader of an organization, regardless of the specific title used by the organization. |
|---|---|
| Represents | leader of organization (Q25713832) |
| Data type | Item |
| Domain | item, organization (Q43229) |
| Allowed values | human (Q5) |
| Example 1 | United Nations (Q1065)leader of organizationAntónio Guterres (Q311440) |
| Example 2 | Department of the Treasury (Q3277092)leader of organizationSteven Kennedy (Q91853045) |
| Example 3 | University of Sydney (Q487556)leader of organizationMark Scott (Q6769648) |
| Example 4 | World Health Organization (Q7817)leader of organizationTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Q16196017) |
| See also | chief executive officer (P169), chairperson (P488), director / manager (P1037), head of state (P35), head of government (P6) |
Motivation
editOrganisations across different sectors and regions use a variety of titles for their top leaders. Currently, Wikidata lacks a standardised property to capture these roles uniformly, with organisations being run by a Secretary, Governor, Vice-Chancellor, Director-General, etc having to use a incongruent sounding title such as chief executive officer, chairperson, or director / manager. Leader of organization is a good neutral umbrella term to accommodate the wide diversity of titles across different fields, avoiding the corporate bias of a corporate-centric title such as CEO and the possible ambiguity of head of organization as an alternative. The property could be used in conjunction with a qualifier to specify the specific title as a string. Check to the King (talk) 12:41, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
edit- Comment I understand the need, but I think it's not possible to state this unambiguously with reference. I. e. it's debatable if the chancellor or the vice-chancellor and principal executive officer is the leader of University of Sydney (Q487556). Leader is just not a clear concept, sometimes multiple people inside one organisation think of themselves as the true leader :) --NGOgo (WikiProject Nonprofits!) 16:08, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
- I think the current definition, which specifies the leader of organization as the top executive leader, does a good job of keeping things clear. For example, in many Australian universities the Chancellor works more like a Chairperson, while the Vice-Chancellor is essentially the chief executive officer. Using leader of organization as a neutral stand-in for the CEO role fits well here. Plus, adding a qualifier for the actual title (like Governor, Secretary, or Vice-Chancellor) lets us handle cases with co-leaders or situations where it's hard to match the role to a standard corporate title. Check to the King (talk) 11:55, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Another example is Microsoft (Q2283) has a chairman, a CEO and a president. Which is considered "leader". GZWDer (talk) 12:26, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Isn't CEO the exact position as it's defined in Wikidata as "highest-ranking corporate officer"? So why not use CEO with a qualifier for the actual title (like Governor, Secretary, or Vice-Chancellor). I'm a little afraid of either having this property only for a few cases or having duplicate entries for all companies with a “normal” CEO. Best NGOgo (WikiProject Nonprofits!) 15:48, 19 February 2025 (UTC)
- Should we then request creation of a new job title property instead (since from what I can see it appears to only exist as an entity i.e. job title (Q828803)) so that it can be added as a qualifier to properties like chief executive officer (P169) and director / manager (P1037)? Or is there already a sensible way to encode this with existing properties? Check to the King (talk) 11:55, 8 March 2025 (UTC)
CACI company ID
editMotivation
edit Notified participants of WikiProject Economics: I propose to create a new property for companies on the Algerian chamber of commerce and industry (Q60851548) website (https://elmouchir.caci.dz/). --154.121.28.236 13:47, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
edit- Support Seems to be an informative source. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:57, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
LUX group ID
editMotivation
editYale University's LUX (Q133612457) is a "platform that provides access to millions of records for objects, people, places, concepts, and events represented in Yale’s rich cultural heritage collections." The collections that are brought together are Yale University Library, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Paul Mellon Centre (UK), Collection of Musical Instruments, Lens Media Lab, Campus Art Collection, and Elizabethan Club of Yale University. Entities include 5,683,846 people and groups, 577,020 places, 13,078,404 works, 17,482,648 objects, 312,240 collections, 158,014 events, and 4,679,830 concepts. AdamSeattle (talk) 23:38, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
edit- Support--Trade (talk) 19:14, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
- Support--Emwille (talk) 13:08, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Support--Thisismattmiller (talk) 16:41, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Support -- Riesengrey (talk) 22:07, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
- Support -- Kkdavis14 (talk) 14:39, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
- Please instead support the proposal for a single LUX identifier property: Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yale_LUX_ID rather than embedding the class name into the property. This would require properties for each of physical object, digital object, image, text, audio, person, group, place, set, concept, and activity. Azaroth42 (talk) 16:37, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
organization code
editMotivation
edit- Many organization registrations/registries have their own organization code system. However:
- It whould be too trivial to create several properties for each system.
- Not all system has formatter URL (P1630) available.
- The reason that the proposed data type is not "external-id" is due to the limit of formatter URL (P1630) could not be used when there are multiple systems with it's own formatter URL. Proposing separated properties should be considered when formatter URL (P1630) is available for the system.
- There are no proper
allowed valuesto set as some systems even allow whitespaces, special characters in the string. The data type "string" should able to cover all of them. - Qualifier determination method or standard (P459) should be used to specify the system used.
- The proposed property should be only used as "registered under the organization" instead of "unit/part/(sub)division of the organization".
-- Winston Sung (talk) 08:05, 15 April 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
edit Notified participants of WikiProject Education
Notified participants of WikiProject Organizations
Notified participants of WikiProject Schools
Notified participants of WikiProject Taiwan
-- Winston Sung (talk) 08:05, 15 April 2025 (UTC)
- Support I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a generic property like this. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:15, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
Bierista beer ID
edit| Description | identifier for a beer in the Bierista database. |
|---|---|
| Represents | Bierista (Q132939393) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | beer (Q44) |
| Allowed values | ^[a-z0-9\-]+$ |
| Example 1 | Hertog Jan Grand Prestige (Q2176488)→hertog-jan-grand-prestige |
| Example 2 | La Trappe Quadrupel (Q21000575)→la-trappe-quadrupel |
| Example 3 | Alfa Edel Pils (Q2067248)→alfa-edel-pils |
| Example 4 | Brand Imperator (Q2120900)→brand-imperator |
| Example 5 | Gulpener Korenwolf (Q2036884)→gulpener-korenwolf |
| Formatter URL | https://www.bierista.nl/$1 |
| Single-value constraint | yes |
| Distinct-values constraint | yes |
Motivation
editBierista is a Dutch-language database that provides information on both domestic and international beers available in the Netherlands, including user-submitted reviews. Mitsjol (talk) 11:38, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
editregistration number of Japanese invoice system
edit| Description | identifier for this organization in the Japanese Consumption Tax Act database |
|---|---|
| Represents | no label (Q134355659) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Allowed values | ^T[1-9]\d{12}$ |
| Example 1 | Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Q1191238)→T3800012000004 |
| Example 2 | Toyota (Q53268)→{{{3}}} |
| Example 3 | Q134355752→T4700150041389 |
| Example 4 | Q134355796→T1810001309134 |
| Source | 登録番号とは |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Single-value constraint | yes |
Motivation
editこのプロパティの値は、通常Corporate Number (Japan) (P3225)にTを付したものと同様であるが、association without rights (Q10855632)やself-employment (Q1005490)にも付与される点で、網羅性が高い。また、ウェブサイトで公開されており信頼性が高い。 (ja) / 이 속성의 수치는 보통 Corporate Number (Japan) (P3225)에 T를 부친 수치와 같으나 association without rights (Q10855632)이나 self-employment (Q1005490)에도 부여되는 점에서 망라성이 높음. 또한 일본 국세청 윕사이트에서도 공개돼 있어 신뢰성도 높다 할 것임. (ko) – (Please translate this into English.)
– The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gminky (talk • contribs) at 15:03, May 5, 2025 (UTC).
Discussion
editarchieven.nl creator ID
edit| Description | archive creator at archieven.nl |
|---|---|
| Represents | archieven.nl (Q33035230) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | organization (Q43229) |
| Allowed values | [0-9A-F]+ |
| Example 1 | Firma G. Lörtzer (Q126961671)→E5BD5EC969ED42C2ABC418D9DB8BD76E |
| Example 2 | Amersfoortse Biscuitfabriek Meursing (Q134520973)→20ED755E6B9F42359EA58CBC74CA880E |
| Example 3 | Netherland Indies Gas Company (Q2645891)→3D581FCDD5874F54BA0DF3324001F297 |
| Example 4 | Allan of Rotterdam (Q4731063)→1BC808DB48C742899684549A2F19EB8D |
| Example 5 | G.J. van der Wansem (Q110562059)→45BBCFCFEAF34640A270FF2112CA05DF |
| Source | https://www.archieven.nl/en/ |
| Planned use | connect Dutch companies with archives to archieven.nl |
| Number of IDs in source | 50.000 |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Formatter URL | https://proxy.archieven.nl/0/$1 |
| Applicable "stated in"-value | archieven.nl (Q33035230) |
| Single-value constraint | yes |
Motivation
editarchieven.nl is a Dutch platform that is the official platform to publish the inventories of 85 local and regional Dutch regional archives (Utrecht, Groningen etc) as well as Dutch cities and municipalities as the Hague and Rotterdam. Inventories are linked to archive creators. Archive creators are governmental bodies, cultural organisations and companies. Those archive creators have a unique and persistent identifier. When we include this as an identifier we can enrich information about organisations and companies with many archives in the Netherlands. --Hannolans (talk) 18:34, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
editIntervener
editMotivation
editHalf of Supreme Court of Canada decisions are made with third-parties called interveners and it has even been said that you can tell how important a case by the number of interveners allowed to weigh in on a pending legal decision (https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4029&context=scholarly works) The role of interveners are of great interest to legal scholars, political scientists, and activists. At present, legal cases allow for a plaintiff and a respondent to be properties of a legal case, but not third party intervenes who are also allowed to present documents to the court. Interveners should be considered an 'input' to a legal decision and not an 'outcome' and as such, they don't belong as 'part of' a decision of the judges.
I made this proposal last year but it did not garner any comment. I would like to have this proposal re-considered as I have since connected with other Wikidata users who I believe will support this proposal, including those from other jurisdictions than Canada. It was unclear how to re-propose a property that was was not supported but was not declined on merit and so I am re-posting this proposal with a minor amendment. Apologies if this was not the correct process. Copystar (talk) 20:08, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
edit
Support --Jeb (talk) 13:34, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
Event
editLUX event ID
editMotivation
editYale University's LUX (Q133612457) is a "platform that provides access to millions of records for objects, people, places, concepts, and events represented in Yale’s rich cultural heritage collections." The collections that are brought together are Yale University Library, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Paul Mellon Centre (UK), Collection of Musical Instruments, Lens Media Lab, Campus Art Collection, and Elizabethan Club of Yale University. Entities include 5,683,846 people and groups, 577,020 places, 13,078,404 works, 17,482,648 objects, 312,240 collections, 158,014 events, and 4,679,830 concepts. AdamSeattle (talk) 23:59, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
edit- Support--Emwille (talk) 13:07, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Support--Thisismattmiller (talk) 16:42, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Support -- Riesengrey (talk) 22:07, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
- Support -- Kkdavis14 (talk) 14:39, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
- Please instead support the proposal for a single LUX identifier property: Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yale_LUX_ID rather than embedding the class name into the property. This would require properties for each of physical object, digital object, image, text, audio, person, group, place, set, concept, and activity. Azaroth42 (talk) 16:37, 4 April 2025 (UTC)