Wikidata:Property proposal/World Rowing ID

World Rowing ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: World Rowing UUID (P8990) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a person in the database of World Rowing (FISA)
Represents	World Rowing athlete database (Q21008628)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Allowed values	pseudo-random UUIDs, [0-9a-f]{8}\-[0-9a-f]{4}\-4[0-9a-f]{3}\-[0-9a-f]{4}\-[0-9a-f]{12}
Example 1	Hamish Bond (Q1321253) → bcb7936e-9f2e-4319-9c96-022fee09144a
Example 2	Kim Brennan (Q576663) → 3901879a-7bd1-46c5-89ba-3d8ef2fb45aa
Example 3	Kristof Wilke (Q64501) → 1a5af1f6-768a-45d5-8572-c0ffd111c550
Example 4	Miroslava Knapková (Q435707) → 853d5d1a-adec-4e4e-b0f8-6222ef95177e
Source	https://worldrowing.com/athletes/
Planned use	import new identifiers, based on existing World Rowing ID (P2091) values; a mapping table is already prepared
Number of IDs in source	41722
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886) (as not all entries are in scope here; around 12.000–15.000 values are going to be imported)
Formatter URL	https://worldrowing.com/athlete/$1
See also	World Rowing ID (P2091) (same database, but both the formatter URL and the identifiers have changes due to a WorldRowing website relaunch on 17 December 2020)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes
Wikidata project	WikiProject Rowing (Q18729867)

Motivation

The World Rowing (Q684885) has launched a new website last week, which unfortunately changes the access to their rowing results database. Persons (athletes) were previously accessible with one- to five-digit numeric identifiers, but now they are using pseudo-random UUIDs and there is also another formatter URL. As I managed to compile a mapping table for all 41722 values of the new database, I could directly import new identifiers to items which have a World Rowing ID (P2091) value and are contained in the new database as well. For some reason however, around 9000 entries are missing from the new database that were part of the old one with 50k+ entries.

We had a similar situation for ITF player ID before 2020 (archived) (P599) and ITF player ID 2020 (P8618) in the past. Once this property is approved, the old one at World Rowing ID (P2091) will get a suitable deprecation warning in the labels. We can keep the values, though, which are still being used on around 18.500 Wikimedia pages in the projects. —MisterSynergy (talk) 13:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

1.  Support (as proposer) —MisterSynergy (talk) 13:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
2.  Support important to get this done as soon as possible as this will be the basis for fixing tens of thousands of broken references on the English Wikipedia. --Schwede66 (talk) 16:43, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
3.  Support. Simon Cobb (User:Sic19 ; talk page) 20:47, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
4.  Support UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 06:14, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

•  Support Trade (talk) 10:48, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy, Schwede66, Sic19, UWashPrincipalCataloger, Trade:  Done World Rowing UUID (P8990) Pamputt (talk) 09:34, 29 December 2020 (UTC)