Wikidata:Property proposal/Games Database game ID

Games Database game ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: Games Database game ID (P7881) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier of a video game in the Games Database
Represents	Games Database (Q79236313)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	Q7889
Allowed values	[1-9]\d*
Example 1	Gran Turismo 2 (Q980535) → 1008191
Example 2	Table Tennis (Q56042289) → 1004446
Example 3	Radiant Silvergun (Q3416463) → 1681880
Example 4	Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (Q2480047) → 1001539
Example 5	Tetris DX (Q2745604) → 1010164
Example 6	Radiant Silvergun (Q3416463) → 1030642
Example 7	Radiant Silvergun (Q3416463) → 1006598
Example 8	Radiant Silvergun (Q3416463) → 2293580
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	50332
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://www.gamesdatabase.org/game.aspx?id=$1
See also	Wikidata:Property proposal/Games Database system ID

Motivation

Games Database (Q79236313) is a database of 50,000+ video games. Between its former domain (gamesdbase.com) and the current one, there is decent usage on Wikipedias − they use the slug form (such as game/nintendo-game-boy-color/tetris-dx) however the internal ID is accessible in the source code of the page and seems more stable. These entries are per-platform-realization, ans so one of our Q7889 items may map to more than one entry. Entries have links to the MAME ROM name (P2451) (which will help for initial matching), as well as to The Old School Emulation Center (Q7671047) and No-Intro project (which I still have to figure out if/how to integrate). Jean-Fred (talk) 22:35, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

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Discussion

•  Support David (talk) 07:06, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 01:00, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
• @Jean-Frédéric: I tried to create this property but an automatic check failed: example value " 1008191" does not match regular expression \d+. Please fix your proposal and your property will be created shortly. This is an automated message but do not hesitate to ping me if you need any help. − Pintoch (talk) 11:45, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

  @Pintoch: Hmmm, as far as I can see, \d+ does match `1008191` no? Is that a leading space issue? I changed the regex to [1-9]\d* (which may or may not be better ^_^). Jean-Fred (talk) 12:32, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Jean-Frédéric:  Done: Games Database game ID (P7881). − Pintoch (talk) 16:34, 29 January 2020 (UTC)