WereSpielChequers, 23/07/2012 12:30:
That's about recategorising articles that have
been put in the
redirected category, and yes if that became a big problem it would be
worth resolving. But if you have category redirects and you use hotcat
to add categories it will automatically add the category that you are
being redirected to, not the category that you typed.
I love HotCat and cat-a-lot, but only a fraction of users use them and
we can't expect all tools to work like that, they're broken enough with
the current categorization system (think of the Upload Wizard).
And if people do add the redirected category I believe there is a bot
that will move it to the target category
Conversely if you were searching for a particular category in Tamil, if
there were a category redirect it would take you to the corresponding
English category and tell you that your search word redirects there.
All that currently works,
I don't think the search works like that at all.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Category_redirects_suck would
seem to be a dormant draft that discourages people from creating
category redirects. But it may be time to reopen the debate and make
this an opportunity to make Commons more multilingual.
How about a policy of "Our category names are in English, but you are
welcome to create category redirects from other languages".
The category system seems to be hard enough to understand without
redirects. That's why redirects are disabled on category namespace pages.
Besides, you didn't address my comment that it would be a localisation
nightmare. Really.
Nemo