[Commons-l] Our categories are broken, very broken

[Maarten Dammers]

Hi People,


Daniel Kinzler schreef:

> The category structure is english only. There's no way around this without
> changing the software.
>   
We've been tagging wikipedia categories with the Commonscat template. 
It's similair to interlanguage links. This makes navigating categories 
easier; you can use your local wikipedia's category structure and hop 
over to Commons.
Most bigger wiki's have been checked. Statistics are available at 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Commonscat_stats

Daniel Kinzler schreef:
> Hm... that would be http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sens_unique.JPG -
> niced find, but the sade fact is: that's an orpahn! no categorization, no
> gallery :( we have way too many of those.
>   
At the moment we have about 280.000 uncategorized images (see 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_needing_categories ), 
95.000 are in galleries so we have about 185.000 orphans.
I'm working on a project 
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Categories) to get 
more images in categories. First i tagged most uncategorized images and 
now we're trying to find categories for these images.
Currently people are working on a list at 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Category_suggestions . 
This is a list of category suggestions based on uncategorized images 
which are in galleries. We could use some help. You only have to 
create/find the right category to put the images in from the gallery and 
tag it with a template 
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Populate_category). A bot 
will come along and fill the category.

Maarten