On 14 September 2015 at 15:30, Tuszynski, Jarek W.
<JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI(a)leidos.com> wrote:
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useless and out of date, and I can not think of a situation when I would prefer to land at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?
This overlooks some quite beautiful results from the hard work of some
Commonists on galleries. As a counter example you should consider how
our long term specialist contributor Orchi, lovingly creates
categories such as
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collection_d'orchid%C3%A9es> which
does the useful job of mapping out early illustrations and names of
orchids to their modern names and identifies interesting early plant
names where probably nobody knows of a modern name... these galleries
certainly add to the sum of human knowledge and happen to be more
useful than the source categories.
Fae
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