On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:28 PM Markus Krötzsch <
markus(a)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
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