Wikidata:Property proposal/vglist video game ID

vglist video game ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

   Done: vglist video game ID (P8351) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a video game on vglist
Represents	vglist (Q96096761)
Data type	External identifier
Example 1	Civilization III (Q2374) → 1
Example 2	Red Dead Redemption (Q548203)→ 1031
Example 3	Kingdom Hearts (Q225912) → 440
Source	https://vglist.co/games
Number of IDs in source	34,000
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://vglist.co/games/$1

Motivation

vglist already uses data from Wikidata so it would be easy to automatically link the two items together for a large quantity. The remaining items should then not take too long to link up, and also highlight what video game items we're missing from Wikidata.

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Notified participants of WikiProject Video games. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 12:35, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Also @Nicereddy: Lewis Hulbert (talk) 12:41, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

1.  Support The website looks very clean and is open-source. —Dexxor (talk) 12:56, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
2.  Support --- ʂɤɲ ✉ 07:36, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

•  Comment So I love vglist.co ; but given how it is built on Wikidata data, I wonder whether it makes sense at all to link back… What do you think @Nicereddy:? Jean-Fred (talk) 08:52, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

I was thinking the same at first, but new items can be created on vglist through https://vglist.co/games/new or the Steam import tool and plenty of them aren't linked to Wikidata items now. I was also imagining that we could also automatically fill out missing data, such as when vglist has a Steam application ID for an item and Wikidata doesn't. If a property is inappropriate, perhaps something could be done with mix n match. It'd be interesting to hear Nicereddy's opinion on this. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 15:32, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

@Lewis Hulbert: @Jean-Frédéric: I'd support creating a property if others think it'd be useful. I'm not sure I'll be able to commit to populating the property myself (I may do it, but I won't make any guarantees for now), but the vglist API should let someone else do it relatively easily if anyone wants to.

I already have a view built for listing all games without Wikidata IDs but it's only accessible to admins (right now it's mostly visual novels that don't have Wikidata counterparts). I could add it to the GraphQL API or just expose it as a filter on the games page if people think that'd be useful for finding games that Wikidata is missing. Nicereddy (talk) 20:45, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

That works for me! Jean-Fred (talk) 08:33, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

•  Support Jean-Fred (talk) 08:33, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support You can use the API to populate this property if you want, I'll hopefully find some time to do it myself soon after it's added. Nicereddy (talk) 23:30, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Seems like a nice resource! Husky (talk) 22:48, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

@Lewis Hulbert, Dexxor, WikiSyn, Jean-Frédéric, Nicereddy, Husky: vglist video game ID (P8351) has been created. Pamputt (talk) 05:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)