On 27/02/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@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.