On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:32 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 October 2010 02:11, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
The debate I see on Commons and elsewhere focuses on trying to fix Categories, but frankly IMO it would be better to migrate them to some other systems entirely.
:Let me precis several years' wishlisting on the topic:
- Tagging would be vastly helpful.
- Tags would need to be able to be queried with possibly quite complex
Boolean queries.
- Categories as tags would make a transition feasible from the content side.
Done: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Vernomia_altissima_(Comp...
Works with categories prefixed with "TAG:". Check "flower" and "pink", click on "subset". This leads to the toolserver, and there's only one result, but that could be "prettyfied" (dialog on Commons, previews, etc.) Click on the "+" to add a tag without reloading the page, and on the "x" after the tag to remove it, also without reloading. Everything's still a "normal" edit, so the usual revert options apply.
Note that it's still experimental, and showing twice for me for some strange reason when I'm logged in, but so what...
Cheers, Magnus