On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:28 PM Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
> Thanks, Katie. I see that the external ID datatype does not work as > planed. At least I thought the original idea was to clean up the UI by > moving hard-to-understand string IDs to a separate section. From the > discussions on these pages, I see that the community uses criteria that > are completely unrelated to UI aspects, but have something to do with > the degree to which the property encodes a one-to-one mapping. I guess > this is also valid, but won't be useful for UI purposes. I will need to > use another solution for my case then. > Give it another 2 to 3 weeks and it'll get there. More and more editors are exposed to the separation in the UI now and start noticing the ones that intuitively should be moved into the identifier section. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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