[Foundation-l] Strategy document?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The proof of concept project, warts and all, is at
http://commons.i-iter.org/index.php/Category:Felis_silvestris_catus . It is
true alpha software :) it does do its trick..

It does need some more pretifying and tlc..

Thanks,
       GerardM

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:31 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/10/3 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>:
>
> > Commons - As I wrote as long ago as 2005, it should be possible to tag
> all
> > the media at Commons with labels that show up in the language selected in
> > the user preferences. This has two benefits; it becomes easier for
> > Wikimedians to find pictures to illustrate articles and second it becomes
> > easier for people to find freely licensed material to enrich their work.
> I
> > have been working on a proof of concept and it is clear that we can
> actually
> > do this.
>
>
> This has been on the "desperately wanted" list for Commons for a while:
>
> * categories that behave like tags (so complex Boolean queries can be
> run quickly)
> * cats/tags that have multiple names (so "Category:Dogs" and
> "Category:Chiens" are the same thing)
>
> I understand work is in progress on both of these, though there's no
> estimate on time of arrival.
>
>
> - d.
>
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