Overwriting the commons category system needs large consensus. And i don't think that commons community agree with such a change.

So i ask again the wikidata people, please start a RRF on commons or respect our categorization schema. Commons has a own community with active users. It is not okay that a other project is deciding commons stuff whiteout asking commons.

I suggest to move this discussion to COM:VP.

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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 22:51:07 +0800
From: gnangarra@gmail.com
To: commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org
CC: wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

Subject: Re: [Commons-l] [Wikidata] Trends in links from Wikidata items to Commons

the problem I see is that commons will always have more  categories than wikipedia can have  articles take fences, commons has wooden fences this broken into many cats including wooden fences in a country, this then grows and then gets broken into sub national entities while the number of articles on wikipedia remains at one commons now has 196 country articles with anything between 5 and 50 sub national entities, then some idiot paints his fence now we have wooden fences by colour in a little over 3000 pantone colours....

What I'm seeing here is solution that has the horse pushing the cart problem lies not in linking commons cats to wikipedia articles wikidata but in ensuring wikidata articles are linked to the full range of categories available on commons and that those links can be easily adjusted as necessary

On 30 August 2015 at 18:42, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Luca Martinelli, 30/08/2015 12:03:

Am I the only one that thinks that jheald's .js is a temporary solution?
Am I the only one that actually appreciate his attempt at solving a
*practical* problem by providing a *practical* solution,

It might be a practical solution, but I don't understand what it solves: what's the practical problem?
Quoting from the project chat, the problem to me seems this: «2.4 millions categories are not connected to corresponding Wikipedia articles. [...] — Ivan A. Krestinin (talk) 20:22, 18 August 2015 (UTC)».

Nemo

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