On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:28 PM Markus Krötzsch < markus@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