On 04/07/07, Florian Straub <Flominator(a)gmx.net> wrote:
"Bryan Tong Minh" wrote:
On 7/4/07, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)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=commo…
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
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