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 < markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
On 05.03.2016 14:45, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:28 PM Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org mailto: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 criteriathat 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
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