Wikidata:Property proposal/The World Factbook ID

The World Factbook ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Not done

Description	The World Factbook ID from the Central Intelligence Agency
Represents	The World Factbook (Q11191)
Data type	String
Domain	country or regions
Example	Iran (Q794) → ir Canada (Q16) → ca
Planned use	Have a bot add in all countries based on their two letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code code
Formatter URL	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/$1.html
Robot and gadget jobs	This should be easy for a bot, but I have never created one before. I will need assistance, is there a bot writing tutorial?

Motivation

Best source of information on individual countries and their economies. RAN (talk) 02:27, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support This proposal did not get support at a previous time (by @ChristianKl:), though it deserves.Greetings David (talk) 07:11, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The correct values in the example URL given are mostly (per the previous discussion) the same as FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions) (P901). Accordingly, give that property a third-party formatter URL (P3303) of https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/$1.html, and use described at URL (P973) for exceptions. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can you reword your opposition, I don't understand it. Is it a problem in automating the process, or not creating a unique identifier when we form the url. Or is the problem that another data field uses the same identifier? I am not really sure what a third-party formatter URL is. --RAN (talk) 16:51, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The idea is that we already store all the relevant data. If someone wants to create an infobox that links to the World Factbook according to Pigsonthewing they should already be able to do so with the existing data we store. ChristianKl (✉) 16:37, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We already store all the data? I do not see fields for "International Disputes" or "Media age of population" or "population without electricity" in the Wikidata entry on Iran. Am I missing something, do we have those field, and they just do not display? --RAN (talk) 22:42, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally someone would write a bot to import those statistics and that bot can use the IDs we already have for doing it's work. ChristianKl (✉) 18:41, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I guess what Pigsonthewing is trying to say is that we already store the link to the CIA Factbook, but we keep it obscured under Property:P901 under the subproperty Property:P3303. I guess the question I have is why do we keep it in such an obscure location. Why can't we migrate the data to the country pages where people can find it. It took me two days to figure this out and this is the second time the property has been proposed, so why don't we migrate the link to where it will be seen? In another two years another person is going to ask again why it doesn't appear in the record for the country and only Pigsonthewing will know where the information is stored and why it is stored there. --RAN (talk) 23:28, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions) is on the country page. third-party formatter URL (P3303) is currently not well visible, but it would be possible to display the values of the property generally more broadly. ChristianKl (✉) 18:41, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As the problem is more about integration of third-party formatter URL (P3303) than creating a new property, I am closing this proposal. − Pintoch (talk) 16:06, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]