Why do you have to get lost in them ?
Most already have the phrase "ID" or "Identifier" in their naming
convention. So perhaps a better approach would be to standardize the
naming convention used for External Identifiers and make it a best practice
and golden rule during property creation and voting. A further refinement
could be to enhance the statement selector with an option for "ID" or "WP
ID" or "Descriptor".
I think a simple naming convention would suffice (and clean up the existing
ones): <blah> ID such as for example:
CANTIC ID
Freebase ID
Munzinger IBA ID
NLP ID
dmoz ID
Oxford Biography Index ID
SELIBR ID
etc..
Thad
+ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there any external key which is not of data type
string and vice versa?
Also, no matter whether this gets done or not, please don't remove
qualifiers and references from these statements (I.e. explicitly don't
treat them like sitelinks)
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 17:36 Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all --
Have we considered separating in some way (in the UI, and possibly the
data model) properties which track identifiers in external databases vs.
properties that describe the item using Wikidata-internal links? As more
and more external identifiers are added, it's easy to get lost in them
while looking for the right property to describe an item.
We're effectively already doing this with Wikimedia identifiers by
calling them "sitelinks" and it seems like a potential logical extension of
that concept to group other kinds of external identifiers in their own
section rather than having CANTIC, BIBSYS identifiers, Freebase identifiers
or even DMOZ links mixed together with the primary descriptors of an author
or work, for example.
Thanks,
Erik
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