Wikidata:Property proposal/Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID

Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Organization

Done: Library of Parliament of Canada riding ID (P10644) (Talk and documentation)

Description	external identifier for instances of federal electoral district of Canada (Q17202187) on Library of Parliament (Q1125633)
Data type	External identifier
Allowed values	[1-9]\d*
Example 1	Papineau (Q3362910) → 6343
Example 2	Bow River (Q2922698) → 11648
Example 3	Algoma West (Q254345) → 485 (historical riding, dissolved in 1968)
Planned use	add to every item that are instances of federal electoral district of Canada (Q17202187)
Number of IDs in source	1560 on 2022-03-03
Expected completeness	is complete, but new values may exist in the future (Q47169297)
Formatter URL	https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/fr_CA/ElectionsRidings/Ridings/Profile?OrganizationId=$1
Robot and gadget jobs	Bots could help keep the riding data up to date and accurate
See also	Library of Parliament of Canada person ID (P6616)
Wikidata project	Wikidata:WikiProject_Organizations Wikidata:WikiProject_every_politician

Motivation

WikiProject every politician has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead. Wikidata already has an external identifier Property:P6616 for the Library of Parliament of Canada, but it only identifies people. An identifier for electoral districts (ridings) would help keep the linked data between MPs and districts consistent with that of the Library of Parliament of Canada. BaubLeBuidler (talk) 21:56, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

The word riding is not used much on Wikidata, electoral district is used instead. For this reason the property could also be labeled Library of Parliament of Canada electoral district ID. Riding on the other hand is how they are referred to by the Library of Parliament of Canada, for this reason I am undecided as to what label would be best. BaubLeBuidler (talk) 21:56, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support Looks useful. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:49, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Is the reason for the large number that there's an id for each current riding, but also for all the historical ones? ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:50, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  Yes there is an id for every riding from 1867 to today. The full list can be found on the Ridings page of the Library of Parliament. BaubLeBuidler (talk) 21:59, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  I should note that the default "currently active" filter at the bottom of the page needs to be disabled to see the complete list. BaubLeBuidler (talk) 22:16, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]