Wikidata:Property proposal/PCGamingWiki ID

PCGamingWiki ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

   Done: PCGamingWiki ID (P6337) (Talk and documentation)

Description	A Wikidata property related to video games (Q28147643) for PC video games tracked on PCGamingWiki.
Represents	PCGamingWiki (Q17013880)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	video game (Q7889)
Example 1	Half-Life 2 (Q193581) → Half-Life_2
Example 2	FTL: Faster Than Light (Q4308783) → FTL:_Faster_Than_Light
Example 3	Portal (Q274897) → Portal
Example 4	Bastion (Q810662) → Bastion
Example 5	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Q725902) → Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic
Example 6	Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game (Q910938) → Fallout_2
Source	https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Category:Games
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	29000
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	Bots/scripting can likely automate much of this by matching all the articles on PCGamingWiki that have Steam AppIDs with Steam application ID (P1733) on Wikidata, or via the Wikipedia article linked on many PCGamingWiki articles
See also	Multiplayer ID (P6267), GameSpot game ID (P5494), Steam application ID (P1733)

Motivation

Currently there are 29,000 game articles in PCGamingWiki. 6470 articles (a portion of those articles are controllers and developers, so let's say 5000) have associated English Wikipedia articles, and more than 7000 articles have associated Steam AppIDs (only 3700 video games on Wikidata have the Steam AppID property (Steam application ID (P1733)), so there's a lot of data that's missing here). We'd be able to share data like Steam application ID (P1733), GOG application ID (P2725), Wine AppDB ID (P600), etc. between PCGW and Wikidata.

This is my first proposal for a Wikidata property, please correct me if I've done anything incorrectly :) Nicereddy (talk) 18:21, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Discussion

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Notified participants of WikiProject Video games Nicereddy (talk) 18:36, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Seems very useful, why not have the scope cover more than just video games though? It seems a good ID for stuff like developers and game engines too. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 21:29, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
  • The main reason I excluded other domains is because the Games data is the most plentiful, accurate, and useful. Developers, publishers, and engines can be pretty useful though, I agree, and they're pretty accurate as far as I'm aware. --Nicereddy (talk) 23:52, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Cwf97 (talk) 21:23, 29 December 2018 (EST)
•  Support David (talk) 06:24, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I was thinking about that one as well − thanks for the property proposal :) Jean-Fred (talk) 16:31, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Kirilloparma (talk) 16:58, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose Is adding yet another ID necessary? They have a Steam App ID redirect script https://pcgamingwiki.com/api/appid.php?appid=<api_id>. Their Steam IDs to WP articles was my source for seeding Steam application ID (P1733) (which failing to blossom). Dispenser (talk) 04:44, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

However, not every single PC game is released on Steam. There's a lot of exclusive releases on other DRM platforms like Origin or Uplay, as well as older games that only ever got retail releases. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 14:40, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• Can we consider consensus reached here so we can set the status to ready and get the property moved toward creation? Nicereddy (talk) 19:02, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
  • @Nicereddy: sure, hopefully it should help populate Steam application ID (P1733) too. − Pintoch (talk) 19:41, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Dispenser, Nicereddy, Pintoch, Cwf97, Lewis Hulbert: @Kirilloparma, Jean-Frédéric:  Done: PCGamingWiki ID (P6337). − Pintoch (talk) 19:45, 6 January 2019 (UTC)