---
id: "skype_username"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons", "useraccounts"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 35
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/skype_username"
---

# Skype username (`skype_username`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Person username in Skype

- Parent datatype: `username`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons), User accounts in products and services (useraccounts)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_\-\,\.]{5,31}
```

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:Username`
- wikidata: `P2893`

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2893>

## Quality

Score 35/100. Missing: description, anchored regexp, examples, negative example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/skype_username.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/useraccounts/skype_username.yaml>