Gerard: search for 'Castor' in 'Categories and Pages' in Special:MediaSearch (or equally in Special:Search without the subpage option) and you'll immediately be pointed towards the category for 'Beaver' (Castor is the Spanish name). Using Wikidata, we're already using multilingual labels to improve these search terms - but the new MediaSearch misses them when you're only looking for images.
Paulo: galleries vs categories is mostly solved already. What would happen if you found a category like "Eiffel Tower taken from the west corner of the Trocadero terrace" if you didn't know English - how would you understand it? By linking it with Wikidata, we gain multilingual information.
Thanks, Mike
On 19/12/21 06:28:58, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, As long as we can not confidently search for pictures in any language I really wonder what the point is of such an exercise. In my opinion we should prioritise measurable effects for our users. Something like: "A nine year old will find pictures in his or her language on all the subjects of interest to them".
I have shown repeatedly that even a word like beaver will not get you much of the furry animal, particularly when you search in other languages. thanks, GerardM
On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 at 00:10, Mike Peel <email@mikepeel.net mailto:email@mikepeel.net> wrote:
Hi all, Over the last few years, over 3.6 million Wikimedia Commons categories have gained an infobox that displays information from Wikidata in the reader's language. I would like to see this expanded so that all Commons categories have a multilingual infobox. I've started an RfC about this at: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Creating_new_Wikidata_items_for_all_Commons_categories <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Creating_new_Wikidata_items_for_all_Commons_categories> If you're interested in this topic, please comment there. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines> and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l> Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/VRHAASU2EFZAZARC3VAOLPVGOJS6MOJ2/ <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/VRHAASU2EFZAZARC3VAOLPVGOJS6MOJ2/> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimedia-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org>
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