Wikidata:Property proposal/startrekdb.se query

startrekdb.se query edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

Not done

Represents	Star Trek character (Q73502569), Star Trek episode (Q61220733), astronomical object from the Star Trek universe (Q57083319), fictional spacecraft (Q14637321), Robert Duncan McNeill (Q508333), Star Trek novel (Q72996181)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	item
Allowed values	`([\w]+)\/\1\.php\?([\w]+\=[\w\d]+)(&[\w]+\=[\.\d\w]+)?`
Example 1	Who Mourns for Adonais? (Q3487403) → `avsnitt/avsnitt.php?trek=tos&avsnitt=2.2`
Example 2	Borg cube (Q11338913) → `skepp/skepp.php?klass=21`
Example 3	Robert Duncan McNeill (Q508333) → `personer/personer.php?person=618`
Formatter URL	https://www.startrekdb.se/$1
See also	startrek.com Database ID (P7512)

Motivation edit

startrekdb.se is a fan-curated fairly complete database of things related to Star Trek (Q1092). Unfortunately they don't seem to have a URI system or canonical link element (Q1033568). This has the disadvantage that its not an id in that there is no single canonical string that represents an article. For instance these two ids:

 avsnitt/avsnitt.php?trek=tos&avsnitt=2.2
 avsnitt/avsnitt.php?avsnitt=2.2&trek=tos

are different but they refer to the same entry. Also there is a lot of redundancy in every value. -- Shisma (talk) 10:16, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

The datatype should be URL.--GZWDer (talk) 00:42, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Seems like a pretty shaky foundation to have as a property if they don't provide permalinks and queries could change. To use those queries as a reference simply use reference URL (P854) or described at URL (P973) as a property. Husky (talk) 22:32, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
format seems somewhat suboptimal --- Jura 15:15, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Not done MSGJ (talk) 12:17, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]