I agree that most of the galleries on Commons are semi useless and out of date, and I can
not think of a situation when I would prefer to land at a Gallery page rather than
Category page when following a interwiki link. But what do you suggest when proposing to
completely kill all the galleries? Delete them all?
Jarek T.
User:Jarekt
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On Behalf Of Daniel Schwen
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 2:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [Commons-l] [Wikidata] Trends in links from Wikidata items to Commons
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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