Wikidata:Property proposal/Podbay show ID

Podbay show ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: Podbay ID (P11976) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a podcast on Podbay
Represents	Podbay (Q106557914)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	podcast (Q24634210), radio program (Q1555508)
Allowed values	[a-z0-9-]+
Example 1	This American Life (Q106802162) → this-american-life
Example 2	Criminal (Q24701716) → criminal
Example 3	The Ezra Klein Show (Q109892458) → the-ezra-klein-show-280811
Example 4	Death, Sex & Money (Q28444707) → death-sex-and-money
Source	Podbay.fm
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].
Planned use	Inclusion in the Podcast platform links template on English Wikipedia
Number of IDs in source	Source claims 30 million, however fails to breakdown the percentage of those which represent shows as opposed to episodes. Podcast Insights published data for 2021 placed the ratio of shows : episodes ≅ 1 : 24, suggesting that the upper boundary for Podbay's potential show identifiers (assuming similar geometric proportion) ≘ 1.6 million.
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Implied notability	Wikidata property for an identifier that does not imply notability (Q62589320)
Formatter URL	https://podbay.fm/p/$1
See also	Most notably: Apple Podcasts podcast ID (P5842), Spotify show ID (P5916), iHeart podcast ID (P7324), Podchaser podcast ID (P7998), Pocket Casts ID (P9006), Player.fm ID (P9010) and Listen Notes podcast ID (P10213); of a kind with all extant members of the Podcasting properties template
Distinct-values constraint	yes
Wikidata project	WikiProject Podcasting (Q21830634)

Motivation[edit]

In alignment with my belief that the raison d'être of all Wikimedia Foundation projects is not just the cataloguing of facts but also the facilitation of their consumption, templates such as Podcast platform links would ideally include all discovery and consumption platforms that achieve a critical mass. With Podbay having been in operation without interruption for over a decade and employing SEO strategies of late which has them appearing more regularly in the first 20 search results for queries of a podcast's name, I am satisfied that they meet that threshold. 🐈⚞ℛogueScholar⚟^{🗨₨UserTalk} 00:52, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]