On 14 September 2015 at 03:54, Steinsplitter Wiki <steinsplitter-wiki@live.com> wrote:

[Quoting Gerard Meijssen]

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> <grin> Commons categories are hopeless when you do not speak English. </grin> I do not care for them at all. When functionality opens data for people who do not speak English, then by all means take care of the categories but do understand that it will be no longer for "all of us".

grin?? Then just build a i18n system for cats (likely with i18n from wd).

Not to de-rail the conversation, but that is the main aim of the proposal to install WikiBase on Commons and move the contents of File pages into structured data. So far, this is the only realistic proposal I've seen that could actually be made to work with the complexities and needs of Commons.

I think you're optimistic if you think this is "just" anything, however. It's a huge amount of work (on which I don't believe anyone is currently working).

James D. Forrester
Lead Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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