Wikidata:Property proposal/Online Books Page author ID

Description	identifier for an author, at the Online Books Page website
Data type	External identifier
Domain	Authors of ebooks
Allowed values	(see below)
Example	Charles Dickens (Q5686) → Dickens%2c%20Charles%2c%201812%2d1870 Charles Dickens (Q5686) → Dickens,%20Charles,%201812-1870
Source	http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
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].
Formatter URL	http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=$1
Robot and gadget jobs	Online Book Page is mix'n'match catalog 694

Online Books Page (Q7093997) is a website established in the 1990s to catalogue ebooks, and is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania (see [1]). There are about 45K authors represented, over a wide range of areas. External links from Wikipedia to it are commonly used. Charles Matthews (talk) 17:16, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Magnus Manske (talk) 19:20, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: This site has two types of URL. The one in the original example ([2]) links to a search results or disambiguation page. The correct link for Charles Dickens (Q5686), as listed on that example page, is http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Dickens%2c%20Charles%2c%201812%2d1870 (whose slug both appears to be case-insensitive and includes digits and encoded punctuation). The Mix'n'Match set is using the latter. I have adjusted the proposal accordingly, and shown two variants of working values for the example.. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:17, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks, Andy. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:38, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  - Oh, and Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:59, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support David (talk) 08:24, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sic19 (talk) 11:44, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jneubert (talk) 15:47, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Charles Matthews, Magnus Manske, Pigsonthewing, ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Sic19, Jneubert: Done Note that there is no need for '%-encoding' within wikidata identifiers, the formatter URL translation takes care of that, so the actual identifiers are simply the comma and space-separated values you see in the system there. ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:05, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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