Wikidata:Property proposal/npm package

npm package edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

Done: npm package (P8262) (Talk and documentation)

Description	name of a package on npm
Represents	npm (Q7067518)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	JavaScript library (Q783866)
Allowed values	string
Example 1	React (Q19399674) → react
Example 2	Lodash (Q24033787) → lodash
Example 3	TypeScript (Q978185) → typescript
Example 4	Express.js (Q16878131) → express
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Number of IDs in source	1,292,900
Formatter URL	https://www.npmjs.com/package/$1

Motivation edit

npm is massive and is the de facto repository of JavaScript projects with a permissive crawler and republishing policy that will allow the creation of bots (similar to User:Github-wiki-bot) for the automatic pulling and maintenance of metadata for JavaScript libraries.

Bots will be able to pull the following from npm metadata:

Keplersj (talk) 01:36, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Support Good idea! ArthurPSmith (talk) 16:56, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 02:23, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dhx1 (talk) 18:22, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Haansn08 (talk) 18:54, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Germartin1 (talk) 07:58, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]