>The problem with Commons is that its categories
will be largely redundant once Wikidata type technology will replace them
Can you elaborate please? What is replacing commons category system?
...
From: gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:30:36 +0200
To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] [Wikidata] Trends in links from Wikidata items to Commons
Hoi.
The problem with Commons is that its categories will be largely redundant once Wikidata
type technology will replace them, It will be just a question of having a query for the
result that you want.. If you want to have fences in mauve, by all means, query for it but
there may be the surprise that there are none.
Creating items for categories for Commons is imho an exercise in futility.. What is the
point after all ? Having those categories may mean that we have a clue what queries are of
interest..So when people add those categories, it is current best practice.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 August 2015 at 16:51, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
the problem I see is that commons will always have more categories than wikipedia can
have articles take fences, commons has wooden fences this broken into many cats including
wooden fences in a country, this then grows and then gets broken into sub national
entities while the number of articles on wikipedia remains at one commons now has 196
country articles with anything between 5 and 50 sub national entities, then some idiot
paints his fence now we have wooden fences by colour in a little over 3000 pantone
colours....
What I'm seeing here is solution that has the horse pushing the cart problem lies not
in linking commons cats to wikipedia articles wikidata but in ensuring wikidata articles
are linked to the full range of categories available on commons and that those links can
be easily adjusted as necessary
On 30 August 2015 at 18:42, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Luca Martinelli, 30/08/2015 12:03:
Am I the only one that thinks that jheald's .js is a temporary solution?
Am I the only one that actually appreciate his attempt at solving a
*practical* problem by providing a *practical* solution,
It might be a practical solution, but I don't understand what it solves: what's
the practical problem?
Quoting from the project chat, the problem to me seems this: «2.4 millions categories are
not connected to corresponding Wikipedia articles. [...] — Ivan A. Krestinin (talk) 20:22,
18 August 2015 (UTC)».
Nemo
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