Wikidata:Property proposal/WikiTree

WikiTree ID edit

Done: WikiTree person ID (P2949) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a person in the WikiTree genealogy website
Represents	WikiTree (Q1074931)
Data type	String
Domain	Person
Allowed values	valid Wikitree URL slugs
Example	Wells-6939 (family tree) Bacon-2568 (family tree, my connection) Van_Beethoven-1 Stefan Löfven prime minister Sweden
Formatter URL	http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	No

Motivation

WikiTree (WikiTree (Q1074931)) is a wiki that has been customized for genealogy i.e. it supports family trees relations. Today you have 324 000 registered users and 12 000 000 profiles the idea is to add this property to Wikidata for notable people who has a WikiTree profile ex. Bacon, Wells...

Salgo60 (talk) 14:02, 27 April 2016 (UTC) Today people links to Wikipedia and also try to link from Wikipedia to WikiTree I think a better approach is to be a property in Wikidata[reply]

Discussion

Strong oppose the website is not under the free license. --Ochilov (talk) 11:48, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Nor are most of the external websites we link out to. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:31, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- While it's not the same as being under free license, the founders have pledged to keep the content free - see their statement. As Andy mentions, this is more than can be said for many of the accepted sites that already participate in Wikidata. Kjtobo (talk) 14:49, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: The Ochilov account is now globally locked, for "crosswiki abuse". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:39, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support With the decision to avoid using a Wikipedia template to link to a person's family tree information on WikiTree, contributors like myself are looking for a way to make the genealogical data we collect more useful to others in order to improve knowledge of our subjects. Kjtobo (talk) 15:19, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment As a wiki, the identifier may not be stable, which is not desirable for the 'external identifier' datatype. --Izno (talk) 15:00, 10 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Its stable The identifier is unique in Wikitree and not set by the user. If you merge two profiles you have a Redirect behind the scene.... If you create a new profile with the same surname you get an unique number appended to the name e.g. Van_Beethoven-1 Van_Beethoven-2 Van_Beethoven-3
- I saw that Property:P2889 was approved I feel Wikitree has the same status as Family Search as a genealogy site for creating Family trees.... Salgo60 (talk) 20:05, 10 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Note also genealogics.org person ID (P1819). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:38, 13 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:25, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Salgo60, Kjtobo, Andrew Gray, Pigsonthewing, Izno: Done Now WikiTree person ID (P2949) --Lymantria (talk) 06:38, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]