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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  1. To improve articles about UID schemes
  2. To standardise and encourage the use of UIDs in articles
  3. To formulate and deploy a policy for redirecting URLs for UIDs to articles (see UID interface to Wikipedia)
  4. To collaborate with Wikidata and DBpedia regarding the use of UIDs
  5. To develop MediaWiki feature requests relating to UIDs, if needed
  6. To liaise with external UID providers and consumers

To-do

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Templates

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User templates

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Place this template on your user page:

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:

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.


Article templates

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Categories

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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.

Participants

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