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

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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

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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

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User templates

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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

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

{{WikiProject UID }}

It will appear like this:

WikiProject icon Unique Identifiers (inactive)

WikiProject icon 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

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{{Authority control }}

Examples

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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.