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

[David Gerard]

2008/9/18 Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>:

> The trick is figuring out the good tree-top to go to as a starting
> point, which is not easy because it depends on your goal and you also
> need to be fairly familiar with the category tree and naming
> conventions to begin with.


I've been using search on commons a lot lately (source pics for
http://notnews.today.com/ ), and I can assure you that finding stuff
sucks even just in English.

"Wikimedia Commons - it's like Getty Images but the search really sucks ..."


- d.