Hoi,
Killing categories on Commons is a bit premature. Until the time we start
working in earnest on Commons, it is probably not the categories we will do
first. Easiest and more obvious are data that is of relevance and is kept
in templates like the "Creator" or the "Institution" template. As it
is, a
majority of them are already linked to Wikidata. Making a complete change
for having this data in Wikidata means that such information is available
in all languages. Another aspect is in data like licenses and similar info.
That could be done easy as well because it is already largely structured.
Categories on Commons are "peculiar". It will be interesting what the
discussions will be once it will be discussed in earnest.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 13 September 2015 at 20:39, Daniel Schwen <lists(a)schwen.de> wrote:
Hi all,
before we write off the category system (as
living-in-the-future-Gerard seems to do ;-) we should probably rather
think about killing galleries. All of them. Completely. Galleries
require a considerable maintenance overhead, and I would argue that
that work is better spent on categorizing our content. We could
replace galleries by allowing select images to retain high level
categories (for example through a template so the don't accidentally
get diffused down the tree). The captions in galleries are just an
i18n nightmare and a data duplication of the description texts.
This does not entirely solve the problem of still having the Creator
namespace, but if were up to me, we'd _not_ interwikilink there, but
rather to the "Works by .." category, because that is what I think
people expect to find on commons: Images
Cheers,
Daniel
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
> On 28 Aug 2015, at 18:40, Reguyla <reguyla(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is one reason I create the pahbricator request for Commons to have
its
own Site box rather than fall under "Other wiki's". That would allow us
to link an item to its corresponding Gallery, Category, Creator or
whatever. Right now we can only like to Commons category via the Other
Wiki's and although we can link Galleries, Creator and the like as data
items, they are not "linked" as site links.
This would be very useful - I think this would be a good way forward
that would
avoid the whole 'page vs. category' debate. The Phabricator
ticket is at:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102417
Thanks,
Mike
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