| Multichill added a comment. |
In T144476#2601295, @thiemowmde wrote:What you are describing as "externalids" is, as far as I understand, the number of statements with property type "external-id". I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have such a count per property type. I believe it's possible to count statements per type in SPARQL, isn't it?
I filed T114617 for that some time ago. External-id type properties are a bit different than the other types. These are used to link to the same concept in another database. As mentioned in the description of the task: A bit more like sitelinks. Why do we track the number of sitelinks? Because it gives an indication of the importance of an item. The same goes for properties of types external-id's. We already moved them in a special "identifiers" section in the interface. Important items also seem to have a lot of identifiers, see for example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5582#identifiers
I would probably use it myself to make a list of interesting people to write about on Wikipedia. For example the painters that don't have a Wikipedia article in any language, sorted by the number of identifiers descending. That sure would yield some interesting suggestions!
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