Wikipedia:WikiProject Unique Identifiers

A project for Wikipedians using Unique Identifiers (UIDs) for article subjects; particularly where a more specific UID project does not already exist.

Aims

1. To improve articles about UID schemes
2. To standardise and encourage the use of UIDs in articles
3. To formulate and deploy a policy for redirecting URLs for UIDs to articles (see UID interface to Wikipedia)
4. To collaborate with Wikidata and DBpedia regarding the use of UIDs
5. To develop MediaWiki feature requests relating to UIDs, if needed
6. To liaise with external UID providers and consumers

To-do

• Work out how to achieve UID access to wikipedia articles
• Improve project templates (logo; category/ies; switch for non-article pages)
• invite relevant editors to join
  • A pointer to this project has been posted on:
    • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Libraries
    • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject NIH
    • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pharmacology
    • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Databases
    • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry ‎
    • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine
    • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Genetics ‎
    • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computational Biology
    • Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology
• document existing work
• expand this list!

Templates

User templates

Place this template on your user page:

• {{User WP UID}}

It will appear like this:

This user is a member of
WikiProject Unique Identifiers.

Article talk page templates

Add this to the talk pages of articles about organisations that use QRpedia:

• {{WikiProject UID}}

It will appear like this:

Article templates

• {{Authority control}}

Categories

• Identifiers
• WikiProject Unique Identifiers
• External link templates to linked data sites with reciprocal links

Examples

Some of the UIDs in use on Wikipedia; this is not comprehensive list; we probably need a (hidden?) category, separate to the above, for those we actually use.

• Bibliography
  • ISBN - see Wikipedia:ISBN
  • ISSN - see Wikipedia:ISSN
  • (LC and ?) BL shelf marks (e,g Cotton Mss)
  • Digital object identifier (doi)
  • Library of Congress Classification
  • Dewey Decimal Classification
• Biochemistry
  • GenBank
  • UniProt
  • Gene Ontology
• Biography
  • Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN)
  • Personennamendatei (PND)
  • SELIBR by the National Library of Sweden
  • Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
  • International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)
  • Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)
• Business
  • Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei (GKD)
• Chemistry & Pharmacology
  • CAS registry number
  • ChemSpider ID
  • ChEMBL
  • ChEBI
  • PubChem
  • InChI and InChIKey
  • SMILES
  • UNII
  • KEGG
  • RTECS
  • DrugBank
  • MedlinePlus
• Medicine
  • IDC
  • Diseases Database
  • MedlinePlus (as above)
  • eMedicine
  • MeSH
• Music
  • MusicBrainz - see Category:MusicBrainz templates
• Transportation
  • ATOC Station Identifiers (aka CRS codes) (UK Railway Stations)
  • NaPTAN (UK transport locations)
  • ICAO codes - airports, airlines, aircraft.
  • IATA codes
• Linguistics
  • ISO 639
  • Ethnologue
  • IETF language tag (BCP 47)
  • Unicode
  • ISO 15924
• Geography
  • ISO 3166
  • FIPS
  • IANA
• Currency
  • ISO 4217
• Miscellaneous subjects
  • Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD) (Commercial terms?)
  • LCSH ?? (Commercial terms?)

Participants

• Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) - founder
• Victuallers (talk)
• Tagishsimon (talk)
• John Harvey (talk)
• Shimgray (talk)
• Rich Farmbrough Oh yes....
• Dsp13 (talk)
• Nicholas Humfrey (@njh) - Interest in adding Unique Identifiers to dbpedia lite
• FeanorStar7
• John Vandenberg
• Jane (talk) 14:10, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
• Revent Interested in getting Bio articles about authors to have both VIAF and LCCN #'s.
• Alistairirvine (talk) 15:41, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
• SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  22:15, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Related

• Wikipedia:Metadata
  • Wikipedia:Authority control
  • Wikipedia:Biographical metadata