On 14 September 2015 at 15:30, Tuszynski, Jarek W. JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI@leidos.com wrote:
I agree that most of the galleries on Commons are semi useless and out of date, and I can not think of a situation when I would prefer to land at a Gallery page rather than Category page when following a interwiki link. But what do you suggest when proposing to completely kill all the galleries? Delete them all?
This overlooks some quite beautiful results from the hard work of some Commonists on galleries. As a counter example you should consider how our long term specialist contributor Orchi, lovingly creates categories such as https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collection_d'orchid%C3%A9es which does the useful job of mapping out early illustrations and names of orchids to their modern names and identifies interesting early plant names where probably nobody knows of a modern name... these galleries certainly add to the sum of human knowledge and happen to be more useful than the source categories.
Fae