Hoi,
When you look at Wikidata itself, it is very much a jungle of unsorted
data. This has been recognised and a different layout of the information is
in the planning. I am glad with your complaint because it shows that we are
maturing.. We have so much of a mess that it is largely unintelligible. The
development of Wikidata is slowly but surely moving away from the old
layout and that is very welcome. Singling out the external resources does
not make sense at this time.
When you want your information is a more readable way use Reasonator. All
the externals are on the sidebar. You can use it in multiple languages. It
is the current best of breed for displaying everything Wikidata AND you can
label in your language when WIDAR is enabled.
Having the external resources in there has already proven itself as being
extremely important.. OCLC will use Wikidata as its primary source for
linking its sum of all knowledged to our sum of encyclopaedic knowledge.
Erik be patient.. see that the German team have the resources they need.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 4 April 2015 at 02:35, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> 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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