Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Basically: yes, this is the idea, but detecting categorization changes isn't trivial. also, really keeping a copy of the flat content of each category would be redundant to the extreme. it would result in hundreds of millions of entries,
When something starts to look overly complicated, perhaps we are addressing the wrong problem?
If people really want flat tagging of photos in Wikimedia Commons, what stops anybody from inventing a simple template: {{tags|Sweden|sunset|swans}} ?
The template could display this as a little box with some Javascript edit functionality (like HotCats).
What happens when you click one of the tags? Maybe jump off to some toolserver application that has indexed all the tags in the previous database dump? Or go to a Google search? Googling for "swans sunset site:..." should bring up pictures that were tagged like that.
Does it need to be more complicated than that? If so, exactly what is missing in my overly simplistic approach?