Wikidata:Property proposal/shortcode

shortcode

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Computing

   Done: shortcode (P11916) (Talk and documentation)

Description	string of text replaced by an emoji or other character on a platform (e.g. :heart_eyes:)
Represents	shortcode (Q114228968)
Data type	String
Domain	item, emoji (Q1049294), Unicode character (Q29654788), emote (Q1339070), sticker (Q24839054), emoticon (Q31963)
Example 1	😍 (Q87581539)shortcode:heart_eyes:used by (P1535)Discord (Q22907849), GitHub (Q364), Slack (Q17130715), YouTube (Q866)
Example 2	😍 (Q87581539)shortcode:smiling_face_with_heart_eyes:used by (P1535)Emojipedia (Q22908129)
Example 3	👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 (Q117134854)shortcode:family_mwgg:used by (P1535)Discord (Q22907849)
Example 4	👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 (Q117134854)shortcode:family_man_woman_girl_girl:used by (P1535)GitHub (Q364), Emojipedia (Q22908129)
Example 5	👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 (Q117134854)shortcode:man-woman-girl-girl:used by (P1535)Slack (Q17130715)
Example 6	🇧 (Q87576520)shortcode:regional_indicator_b:used by (P1535)Discord (Q22907849)
Example 7	Kappa (Q100605779)shortcodeKappa
Example 8	(╯°_°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (Q61874916)shortcode/tableflipused by (P1535)Discord (Q22907849)
Source	any website's emoji picker
Planned use	importing from various websites en masse
See also	Unicode character (P487), Unicode character name (P9382), {{P|P4213}}, Emojipedia ID (P8711)
Wikidata project	WikiProject Emoji (Q85312460)

Motivation

This property will expand our coverage of emoji. It will be very easy to import these codes from various websites, as they are usually all easily accessible in a platform's emoji picker. Examples 1-6 are from Emojipedia. -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 23:01, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Discussion

• 😳 -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 02:09, 20 March 2023 (UTC) Shisma (talk) 08:11, 20 March 2023 (UTC) 😃 Bluerasberry (talk) 18:14, 20 March 2023 (UTC) 🤓 Trivialist (talk) 23:41, 20 March 2023 (UTC) 🌍🌄🐘🌵🦠🧬⚛️🔬💻📉🧠🔗🌏🌎🌌 --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 00:00, 28 March 2023 (UTC) ⭐ Carlinmack (talk) 12:26, 29 April 2023 (UTC) 🤨 Josh404 (talk) 19:22, 22 July 2023 (UTC) 🤪 — Alexis Jazz 08:06, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
  Notified participants of WikiProject Emoji Thoughts on this? -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 00:27, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

  Where would you import them from? A particular file? API? Shisma (talk) 07:50, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

  I would be using inspect element to grab whole emoji pickers, parsing it, then using my own script to connect them to QIDs. -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 12:16, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

•  Support Shortcodes are a significant part of how emojis are used, so I think that they're important to include in Wikidata. I have a few thoughts on the exact implementation:
  • General scope: As mentioned in the examples, emojis are not the only things that can have shortcodes, e.g. Twitch emote (Q99899353). Where do we draw the line between emoji(-like) shortcodes and things like HTML entities or wikitext like {{!}}, which also act like shortcodes?
  • (╯°_°）╯︵ ┻━┻ (Q61874916)shortcode/tableflipused by (P1535)Discord (Q22907849) I don't think that "/tableflip" is a shortcode: it's just a client-side shortcut that sands a tableflip message. (Recently it's been rebranded as a Slash Command.) For example, "/tableflip" in the middle of a message won't be recognised, nor will it be if directly sent to Discord's API.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by BEANS X2 (talk • contribs) at 10:41, 23 April 2023‎ (UTC).
    • I wouldn't be opposed to things like wikitext if somebody wants to use it for that. HTML entities have their own property so it could perhaps be a subproperty of this one. I agree that /tableflip was a bit of a stretch and we don't need to include it. -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 17:38, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 21:35, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
•  Support For reference, the canonical list of GitHub's short codes are tracked here. Josh404 (talk) 04:25, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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• @Wd-Ryan, Shisma, BEANS X2, Tinker Bell, Josh404:  Done: shortcode (P11916). Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 02:34, 26 July 2023 (UTC)