[[:category:Copyright_statuses]]
->[[:category:Free_licenses]]
->[[:category:GNU_licenses]]
->[[:category:GFDL]]
->[[:category:Periodic_table]]
->[[:category:Chemical_elements_by_periodic_table_row]]
->[[:category:Periodic_table_row_1]]
->[[:category:Hydrogen]]
->[[:category:Hydrogen_compounds]]
->[[:category:Water]]
->[[:category:Bodies_of_water]]
->[[:category:Islands]]
->[[:category:Islands_of_Europe]]
->[[:category:Ireland_(island)]]
->[[:category:Ireland]]
->[[:category:Culture_of_Ireland]]
->[[:category:Languages_of_Ireland]]
->[[:category:English_language]]
->[[:category:Literature_of_England]]
->[[:category:Writers_from_England]]
->[[:category:J._K._Rowling]]
->[[:category:Harry_Potter]]
->[[:category:Harry_Potter_Characters]]
I don't think most people realize it... But our
category system is
terribly broken today. I have provided just a few example which are
fairly easy to fix, but everywhere you look in the category system you
can find problems like this.
Direct navigation is nice, but it doesn't scale to
millions of images.
For people to be able to find images on commons they will increasingly
depend on search.
What is the problem? If people look for Harry Potter images characters,
they don's start from [[:category:Free_licenses]]. They go straigh to
[[:category:Harry_Potter]]. 2 levels deep!
Really, our system is far more useful than what Gregory suggests. I know
this because every week I transfer tens of images from fi.wikipedia to
Commons and I will have to find categories for things whose name I don't
know in English (or even in Finnish).
In fact, finding a category is often hardest when the categories aren't
specific enough. And when it comes to finding an image, for example, for
an article about art nouveau/jugend windows, [[:Category:Windows]] is just
useless. We do need categories like [[:Category:Jugend windows in
Finland]].
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Ystävällisin terveisin,
Samuli Lintula