On 27/02/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If we ever want it to be as easy to find images on
commons as it is on
commercial stock photography sites like Getty, we need to stop
pretending that all categories are best used as tools for manual
browsing.
If categories in MediaWiki can be turned into tags, and you can then
do interesting tag queries (and you can be sure the system will be
tested to its limit the moment it's possible), then quite a lot of the
problems with categories on Commons go away without breaking the
current category system on other wikis. Are the efforts to this end
progressing at all?
- d.