OK Lydia, what is the purpose of giving order of qualifiers then?
Along with helping to give a user a better representation of data, the order can be useful in automated processing of properties. To my mind, it starts with the most important entity data. Moreover, in case of contradiction, I would assume that first properties are “ranked” higher. After all we are humans and pay more attention to the top of page. Our mind may get bit tired by the end of page. In an ideal world you are right that order does not matter, but in the reality it may help algorithms.
Vlad
29 нояб. 2017 г., в 14:19, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de написал(а):
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Владимир Рябцев greatvovan@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the link with sorted properties. Is this page updated automatically or maintained manually by someone? In latter case this looks weird to me, because the order may become not actual at some moment.
Yes it is maintained by hand by the editors.
It is curious that when properties are used as qualifiers we have a separate field specifying the order (called ‘qualifiers-order’). Why not to add the same at the top-level of entity definition?
It is just a heading to make the page more manageable - it doesn't have a meaning beyond that.
Cheers Lydia
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