Wikidata:Property proposal/formatter for periodical

general property-based URL formatter

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

   Done: general property-based URL formatter (P8183) (Talk and documentation)

Description	formatter URL to look up information about a class of items in an online resource. Use with one or several properties generally found on an item. Sample: {P478} for volume or {P304} for page(s), {P433} for issue. Special value {page} for the first value of {P304}. Use a more specific formatter when available, such as "third-party formatter URL" (P3303).
Data type	String
Domain	any, e.g. periodicals
Allowed values	https?://.+ including one or several of: {P478} for value of volume (P478) {P433} for value of issue (P433) {P304} for value of page(s) (P304) {page} for first page in value of page(s) (P304)
Example 4	<example periodical> → https://example.com/archive/{P478}/{P433}/{page}
Planned use	add to some items for periodicals
See also	Wikidata:Property_proposal/file_page_offset formatter URL (P1630): web page URL; URI template from which "$1" can be automatically replaced with the effective property value on items. If the site goes offline, set it to deprecated rank. If the formatter URL changes, add a new statement with preferred rank. search formatter URL (P4354): web page search URL; URI template from which "$1" can be automatically replaced with the string to be searched for. $1 can be whatever you want. third-party formatter URL (P3303): URI template from which "$1" can be automatically replaced with the effective property value on items; for sites other than the primary issuing body of the identifier concerned URN formatter (P7470): formatter to generate Uniform Resource Name (URN) from property value. Include $1 to be replaced with property value ARK formatter (P8054): formatter to generate Archival Resource Key. Include $1 to be replaced with property value

Motivation

A few items with scholarly article (Q13442814) don't have any links to full page version. The indexing at pubmed doesn't have any either, except that it can include a link to an entry about that periodical that does have a link to the official page of the periodical which can then be searched. To cut this short, this could generate a link or a search link based on values already at Wikidata.

I will try to add a few samples above. Please help complete the proposal. (Add your motivation for this property here.) --- Jura 12:17, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

John Vandenberg Aubrey Daniel Mietchen DarTar Maximilianklein Mvolz Andy Mabbett Mattsenate TomT0m JakobVoss Mahdimoqri Jsamwrites Dig.log Sic19 Andreasmperu Pete F 99of9 Mfchris84 Runner1928 Jneubert Juandev VIGNERON Uomovariabile SilentSpike Ecritures Tfrancart Dick Bos Rdmpage Clifford Anderson Parobis1 Susanna Giaccai Zblace Alessandra.Moi ArthurPSmith Alessandra Boccone Erfurth Mgrenci EthanRobertLee Sandbergja Aliyu shaba Walter Klosse Tommasopaiano Dr. Gogami TiagoLubiana (talk) 21:35, 30 December 2021 (UTC) Metacladistics Maxime Skim Reboot01 Strakhov Barrett Golding (Iffy.news)

Notified participants of WikiProject Periodicals

@GZWDer: --- Jura 12:17, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Comment This might be useful, but I'm concerned it may change. But it probably is a good solution where we don't have a DOI or the DOI doesn't resolve to anything. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:41, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Isn't it one of the advantages of formatters that we add newer ones easily? For pubmed entries without an abstract or any link that might help. --- Jura 11:32, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment It occurs to me that this concept could be generalised further and perhaps apply to other things too, allowing direct insertion of any property value into a given formatter string: https://example.com/{P478}/{P433}. Suppose that's almost a new datatype though. --SilentSpike (talk) 09:48, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Yes, I had thought about including other works that use volume (P478). We already have third-party formatter URL (P3303). I think it would be good to have {page} for the first page of page(s) (P304), but beyond that, I wouldn't mind the syntax you suggest. --- Jura 11:32, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @SilentSpike: don't hesitate to update the proposal per your suggestion. --- Jura 16:20, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
    • @Jura1: I'm not entirely sure how best to realise it (my thinking being there could be a more general property for more than periodicals - rather than just changing the syntax). --SilentSpike (talk) 21:35, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
    • @SilentSpike: I revised it. I wonder if we'd need to make it less generic now ;) --- Jura 03:49, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
    • It might be easier to use the formatter if the number of properties that can be used with it is limited. --- Jura 08:08, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
•  Support I'm going to vote to support this, either in current version or expanded as suggested by SilentSpike. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:24, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
• @Jura1, ArthurPSmith, SilentSpike:  Done --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 06:20, 4 May 2020 (UTC)