Steve Block wrote:
Hi,
I hope this is the right place to ask this, but basically I was wondering if I could get a developer's opinion on whether it would be possible to have the category system work more like the tagging systems used by del.icio.us or flickr. There's a bit of a discussion at the village pump, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28techni... which might better explain the concept, but the idea is to bypass a lot of the problems the current system causes with regards to categorisation by gender, ethnicity, nationality, faith and sexual orientation. Any thoughts?
Steve Block
Hoi, Yes, it could but I do not like the way Flickr works.. and that one is as good as the del.icio.us stuff.. Yeah, I know. Have a read at the proposal that has already been put forward, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_Ultimate_Wiktionary_for_Commons this is something that can be done in the not too distant future.
The reason why I do not like the Flickr stuff is because I cannot find a سَگ in it. With the functionality we propose you can. While you are at it have a read at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_MediaWiki because this will also have an application for Commons. We hope to start the coding on this soon.
Thanks, GerardM