Wikidata:Property proposal/InterSportStats athlete ID
InterSportStats athlete ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Sports
| Description | identifier for an athlete (sportsperson) at the InterSportStats.com website |
|---|---|
| Represents | InterSportStats (Q137601353) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Template parameter | |1= or |id= in en:Template:InterSportStats |
| Domain | human (Q5) |
| Allowed values | [1-9]\d{0,9} |
| Example 1 | Laura Dahlmeier (Q4980869) → 3000479395 |
| Example 2 | Marit Myrmæl (Q2521584) → 2000014214 |
| Example 3 | Thiago Pereira (Q540294) → 21927 |
| Example 4 | Dmytro Mezhenskyi (Q106869222) → 928 |
| Example 5 | Lolo Jones (Q466911) → 3000006765 |
| Source | https://intersportstats.com/ |
| External links | Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [uk] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt]. |
| Planned use | Template:InterSportStats (Q136735247), Template:Sports links (Q22674492) |
| Formatter URL | https://intersportstats.com/athletes/$1 |
| See also | The-Sports.org athlete ID (P4391) |
Motivation
[edit]InterSportStats contains entries for athletes (sportspeople) in non-Olympic international and regional competitions. It mainly shows medal results, but for certain sports it also contains results beyond 3rd place. The website has been published since 2020 by Bill Mallon, Hilary Evans, Jeroen Heijmans, Kristof Linke and Martin Kellner,[1] all of whom are contributors to Olympedia (Q95606922).[2] For Olympic athletes, Olympedia contains the Olympic results and InterSportStats contains the other competitions. InterSportStats also has many athletes who never competed in the Olympic Games. It is a valuable resource which currently has links from over 1,600 articles in English Wikipedia and over 5,700 articles in Spanish Wikipedia. -- Zyxw (talk) 01:08, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
Discussion
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Comment I believe this database will be of great addition for sources to every wikipedia, but for now it is a bit unbalanced towards some sports. The size of this database will only grow and improvements will be done, so it will come good in the future. For how long that will take, I don't know. The database I would argue it is the most similar to this one is the one of Les-Sports.info (Q21996558) with the athletes ID's at The-Sports.org athlete ID (P4391).
- Another comment is that this InterSportsStats.com-database are most probably the reason why the group behind the Olympedia-uncertainty expressed here Property talk:P8286#Future of Olympedia uncertain, see also the comments in the linked twitter-thread, were focusing more on this database. For this see also en:Sports_Reference#Olympics. Best festive wishes from Migrant (talk) 00:38, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
- Regarding Olympedia, the discussion you mentioned was from January 2024. Since then, Olympedia was updated with Olympic results through 2024, including the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics. See the discussion at User talk:Habst § deprecated rank for Olympedia from November/December 2025. -- Zyxw (talk) 18:28, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
- Many of the resultslists there only have the top-3 mentioned. I don't know what is best: Do the ones that are already included and update later or wait until it is more complete ? Best regards Migrant (Talk – Contrib.) 22:01, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
- In my experience, InterSportStats mainly contains medalists (which I assume if what you mean by top three) but there are some sports with results beyond third place. I do not think that limits its potential at all and I have found it very helpful with finding medals that other databases do not list. -- Zyxw (talk) 22:15, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
- Notified participants of WikiProject Sports Best regards Migrant (Talk – Contrib.) 18:32, 17 January 2026 (UTC)
Support. --Erokhin (talk) 18:40, 17 January 2026 (UTC)- Support Lee Vilenski (talk) 19:15, 17 January 2026 (UTC)
- Comment I am tendentially agreeing, but how stable in time is this database supposed to be? -- Blackcat
19:31, 17 January 2026 (UTC) - @Zyxw, Migrant, Erokhin, Lee Vilenski, Blackcat:
Done ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:15, 22 January 2026 (UTC)