On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
As for the Wiki(p|m)edia thing, I have to say I agree 100%, although I don't know what other complications there might be.
On 10/28/10 1:21 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Now, the second part. Finding pictures in Commons is really hard. It seems that categories and textual descriptions are added by the uploader, and rarely modified or enhanced by others. Finding a map of bird migration paths across Europe might be easy, but finding a plain and simple map of Europe is hard.
I was just talking about this with some other people at the WMF... I don't fully understand the ramifications of the debate, but it seems obvious to me that categories as implemented are not useful.
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.
I agree.
I've been mumbling about creating a design doc or mockups for my ideas to a few people at the WMF... is anyone else interested in working on this?
IMO, the problem is not how it looks, but the utility of the information. If the metadata was more accessible, more people would fill it in. see e.g.
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Dublin_Core
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