Markus, you are not the only one, I am also skeptical about the criteria used. For me the main problem is perhaps the misunderstanding that the "external identifier" label creates, actually what I was expecting was something more like "external references", a place where to put all the external sources to wikidata in one place. But we'll see how it goes.
Cheers, Micru On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > On 05.03.2016 14:45, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:28 PM Markus Krötzsch >> <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org <mailto: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. >> > > Ok, let's see what happens. I am not saying that the other criteria > applied now in the discussions are bad. It's just another use of the > datatype than I would have expected. > > Markus > > >> 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 <http://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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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