Special:MediaSearch seems to work better:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch?type=bitmap&q=exterior+lantern+corner , if I've understood what you're looking for.
Kosta
On 16/11/2020 01:18, Lars Aronsson wrote:
I've been contributing to Wikipedia since 2001 and to
Wikimedia Commons since 2005. I'm not new to this.
Wikimedia Commons now has millions of images and thousands
of categories. But it's really hard to find anything.
Today I was looking for photos of buildings that have
an exterior lantern on their corner. This is common
in the countryside, where there are no streetlights
and no other buildings nearby. You put a lantern on
the outside of your house, and you put it on the
corner to cover two sides with one lamp.
So there are categories for buildings and for houses.
And by country and by county. And by building
material. And there is a category for exterior
lanterns, but none of the photos there are really
corner-mounted.
When I arrive at Commons, there is a search box and so
I type "exterior lantern corner", but all it does is to
search text content and descriptions. So I get lots of
hits in scanned documents, which is not what I wanted.
I can limit my search to the "File" namespace, but
that includes both JPEG photos and PDF documents.
Here are indeed some corner lamps, but not the rural
kind I wanted,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tinghuset_(lanterne).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fanal_públic_LED.JPG
Here is what I search, but the lamp (in the upper left)
is too small to be useful in this photo,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vårdinge_församlingshem.JPG
This is where I want to find more images like these,
not in the same category, just similar photos.
Surely, such a search function could be implemented
in 2020, in addition to our current text search?
Hasn't anybody done this already?
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