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 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
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