Hoi.

The problem with Commons is that its categories will be largely redundant once Wikidata type technology will replace them, It will be just a question of having a query for the result that you want.. If you want to have fences in mauve, by all means, query for it but there may be the surprise that there are none.

Creating items for categories for Commons is imho an exercise in futility.. What is the point after all ? Having those categories may mean that we have a clue what queries are of interest..So when people add those categories, it is current best practice.

Thanks,

     GerardM

On 30 August 2015 at 16:51, Gnangarra <gnangarra@gmail.com> wrote:

the problem I see is that commons will always have more  categories than wikipedia can have  articles take fences, commons has wooden fences this broken into many cats including wooden fences in a country, this then grows and then gets broken into sub national entities while the number of articles on wikipedia remains at one commons now has 196 country articles with anything between 5 and 50 sub national entities, then some idiot paints his fence now we have wooden fences by colour in a little over 3000 pantone colours....

What I'm seeing here is solution that has the horse pushing the cart problem lies not in linking commons cats to wikipedia articles wikidata but in ensuring wikidata articles are linked to the full range of categories available on commons and that those links can be easily adjusted as necessary

On 30 August 2015 at 18:42, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Luca Martinelli, 30/08/2015 12:03:

Am I the only one that thinks that jheald's .js is a temporary solution?
Am I the only one that actually appreciate his attempt at solving a
*practical* problem by providing a *practical* solution,

It might be a practical solution, but I don't understand what it solves: what's the practical problem?
Quoting from the project chat, the problem to me seems this: «2.4 millions categories are not connected to corresponding Wikipedia articles. [...] — Ivan A. Krestinin (talk) 20:22, 18 August 2015 (UTC)».

Nemo

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