Wikidata:Property proposal/Google Play developer slug

Google Play developer slug[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

Done: Google Play developer slug (P8939) (Talk and documentation)

Description	human-readable identifier for an developer on the Google Play Store
Data type	External identifier
Domain	organization (Q43229), enterprise (Q6881511), human (Q5)
Allowed values	`[a-zA-Z].+`
Example 1	Meta Platforms (Q380) → Facebook
Example 2	Niantic (Q13462819) → Niantic,+Inc.
Example 3	Robert Koch Institute (Q679041) Robert+Koch-Institut
Example 4	RobTop Games (Q20664503) → RobTop+Games
Example 5	Snap Inc. (Q27022329) → Snap+Inc
Example 6	Netflix (Q907311) → Netflix,+Inc.
Example 7	H&M (Q188326) → H%26M
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].
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=$1
See also	Google Play developer ID (P4486)

Motivation[edit]

I had to revert two edits for Google Play developer ID (P4486) which changed the formatter URL. Comparison of the different formatters:

Google Play developer ID (P4486): https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=$1
Google Play developer slug: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=$1

Creating this property avoids confusion and accidental wrong values for Google Play developer ID (P4486).

If you do not know what slug in the label means, see URL slug on Wikipedia. —Dexxor (talk) 17:08, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Notified @Robin van der Vliet: because they started the discussion.

Notified participants of WikiProject Video games

Notified participants of WikiProject Informatics/Software

This is another example of text/numeric ID issue. Is this slug stable?--GZWDer (talk) 07:54, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that a developer on Google Play has either a numeric ID or a slug, but not both. I searched for the regex \d{19} in the HTML source of [1] but did not find a valid numeric ID. —Dexxor (talk) 14:25, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Developers on Google Play with a numeric ID also have a slug but not necessarily vice versa. Compare [2] with [3]. —Dexxor (talk) 14:17, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]