2008/9/18 Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:33 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Also, being able to make tags/cats in different languages refer to the same thing. So [[Category:Dog]] and [[Category:Chien]] do the same thing. Redirects to cats don't quite work as we'd want them to. Commons regulars have begged for this for a fair while now, and there are developers working on this :-)
This will be killer. Which bug was it?
No idea! %-D
There's been some discussion of it on wikitech-l. I know there are people working on it.
The most likely thing we'll see first is categories working like tags, and the impossibly minute categories being turned into Boolean queries on broader cats. I believe that because MySQL sucks, this is actually being implemented with Lucene search. o_0
Easy/trivial renaming of cats would be wonderful as well.
This, like the above, is a matter of someone writing code robust enough not to cripple the Wikimedia live servers and get it past Brion and Tim :-)
If I were trying to produce a media repository that did all this stuff, I doubt I'd start with MediaWiki ...
- d.