Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model. It is written collaboratively by largely anonymous Internet volunteers who write without pay.

Prefix

wikipedia.en

Alternative Prefixes

wikipedia

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Wikipedia should match this regular expression:
^\S+$

Example Local Unique Identifiers

SM_UB-81   Resolve
Pharyngeal_pouch_(embryology)   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Wikipedia should match this regular expression:
^wikipedia\.en:\S+$

Example CURIEs

wikipedia.en:SM_UB-81
wikipedia.en:Pharyngeal_pouch_(embryology)

References

GitHub Issue https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/issues/794

Contributors

• contributor Chris Mungall   0000-0002-6601-2165   cmungall

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier SM_UB-81 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Wikipedia. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.