On 04/07/07, Florian Straub Flominator@gmx.net wrote:
"Bryan Tong Minh" wrote:
On 7/4/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
- Might it ever be possible we'd be able to rate images two ways, for
both general quality, and for 'copyright believablity' (for want of a better phrase)? And from there, be able to easily find and view unrated images, poorly rated images and highly rated images?
A general property/metadata system is what we need. Admins should be able to setup some properties you could easily change in the Mediawiki namespace, and then those properties should magically appear on an image, and can be set by anyone, with revision history recorded, etc.
Thank you for showing us the current status. Could you please be a little more precise about the property/metadata system?
We need to be able to define certain properties that are stored as separate database fields, so that they can be searched as separate database fields. There are also many useful technical properties which can be automatically extracted which should be stored as separate database fields, so that they too can be stored as separate database fields. So IMO there are two needs: 1-set up extra DB fields, some of which are automatically populated 2-provide much-improved search interface to search over those fields.
In this bug comment 10 I detailed some examples of fields I would like to be able to search by. http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3712 Some automatic fields: file type, file dimensions, file size, (last) uploader, date (last) uploaded. These are all things that MediaWiki already knows about, but there's no way for users to access those things properly.
An example of a very simple improved search interface is Duesentrieb's Media Search: http://tools.wikimedia.de/%7Edaniel/WikiSense/MediaSearch.php?wikifam=common...
Mayflower Advanced Search is a great example of what might be possible: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/advanced.php
These tools exist outside Wikimedia. They need to exist as native MediaWiki functionality. Either that or we need a method to redirect all our searches to an external site.
regards Brianna