On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Why is it still, now in 2014, so hard to find images? We have categories and descriptions, but we also know they don't describe all that we want to find in an image. If I need an image with a bicycle and some red flowers, I can only go to the category:bicycles and hope that I'm lucky when browsing through the first 700 images there. Most likely, the category will be subdivided by country or in some other useless way that will make my search harder.
Four years ago I requested the "Wikimedia Category Flattening" feature:
http://marc.info/?l=wikitech-l&m=126525308906767
Fast forward back to 2014 and with an additional 1000 high resolution files uploaded to wikimedia (over 95% of my photos are released into the public domain -- it's more "free" than the iStock editorial license), that feature is still not done. IMO, a better search function for Wikimedia Commons would be way more useful than the WYSIWYG editor for Wikipedia!
Rayson
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