[Commons-l] Our categories are broken, very broken

[Daniel Kinzler]

Delphine Ménard schrieb:
> I dare you to give me sensible a way to get here:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:C6.svg
> 
> ...if you don't speak English.
[...]
> How did we get into this mess?
> 
> Is there a way to start changing this and making something that makes sense?
> 
> Or is it simply hopeless?

The category structure is english only. There's no way around this without
changing the software. There have been some experiments with that recently:
<http://omegawiki.blogspot.com/2008/09/commons-but-now-multi-lingual.html>.

Now, even if you *do* speak English, our category structure is far from perfect.
That *is* something we can work on right now.

-- daniel