2008/10/3 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Commons - As I wrote as long ago as 2005, it should be possible to tag all the media at Commons with labels that show up in the language selected in the user preferences. This has two benefits; it becomes easier for Wikimedians to find pictures to illustrate articles and second it becomes easier for people to find freely licensed material to enrich their work. I have been working on a proof of concept and it is clear that we can actually do this.
This has been on the "desperately wanted" list for Commons for a while:
* categories that behave like tags (so complex Boolean queries can be run quickly) * cats/tags that have multiple names (so "Category:Dogs" and "Category:Chiens" are the same thing)
I understand work is in progress on both of these, though there's no estimate on time of arrival.
- d.