There has been a lot of non-positive community feedback about categorization. The plan that there are 5,000 red-link categories that now need mapping/moving seems unrealistic in the short term,[1] considering the relatively small active population of volunteers interested in spending their time doing it. It's something that could have been predicted and circumvented before upload, and it's not an approach for batch uploads that should be thought of as normal - imagine the fuss if this were 100,000 images or a million!
It strikes me that Commons' norms for larger batch uploads are hard for newer mass uploaders to absorb, my own processes for upload projects, some over ten times bigger than this one, have evolved a lot through experimentation over the past 3 years, and I know I could never write this down in a way that would be useful, apart from pointing to past quietly successful projects that worked well and might be similar. My projects relying on non-English metadata mapping have been tricky, especially as I have no language skills, and tended to re-enforce the view that Commons' way of forcing English categories on everything, is something that ought to improve in the future. Frankly, it's equally hard to imagine how this would be implemented in a way that would not make categorization ridiculously arcane and become a barrier for newer contributors in the way that seemed to be the case for multilingual templates.
If the burndown of the category backlog stays an on-going issue, and there are more complaints over the next week or two, it would be beneficial to comment out all the red-links by bot and then leave longer term housekeeping to roll on using hidden data that then does not flood maintenance backlogs which appears the root cause of several complaints in the past week.
Links 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC#Work_in_progress
Thanks, Fae
On 10 April 2016 at 19:20, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
ankry.wiki, 09/04/2016 00:10:
Categorization of these images seems to be a big problem. Category names shouldn't be in Italian.
They will not be, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC#Work_in_progress .
Nemo-BEIC