On 7/18/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Though to be fair, uploading is only half the job.
Most people don't
realise that categorising them makes them actually useful. At the very
least, a category describing the thing it's a photo of:
[[Sulfur-crested cockatoo]], [[Kilkenny Castle]] or [[MacDonalds]].
Strangely, we don't seem to mention that fact much.
True enough. The biggest problem with Commons is that the MediaWiki
software is not really set up to be an image repository. What works
very well for articles does not work so well for groups of files -- it
is hard to find things which are uncategorized, it is hard to tell
when new things have arrived, and unless you have 200 images on your
watchlists it is hard to tell when image descriptions are changed (or
vandalized) or the images themselves have been re-uploaded.
Examples probably help.
If you cruise through their IFD you can see a lot of this happening
all the time.
FF