Wikipedia:WikiProject Unique Identifiers

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

Aims

To improve articles about UID schemes
To standardise and encourage the use of UIDs in articles
To formulate and deploy a policy for redirecting URLs for UIDs to articles (see UID interface to Wikipedia)
To collaborate with Wikidata and DBpedia regarding the use of UIDs
To develop MediaWiki feature requests relating to UIDs, if needed
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:
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:

Unique Identifiers (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Unique Identifiers, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Unique IdentifiersWikipedia:WikiProject Unique IdentifiersTemplate:WikiProject UIDUnique Identifiers

Article templates

{{Authority control}}

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
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)

Wikipedia:Metadata
- Wikipedia:Authority control
- Wikipedia:Biographical metadata