On 7/18/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Though to be fair, uploading is only half the job. Most people don't realise that categorising them makes them actually useful. At the very least, a category describing the thing it's a photo of: [[Sulfur-crested cockatoo]], [[Kilkenny Castle]] or [[MacDonalds]]. Strangely, we don't seem to mention that fact much.
True enough. The biggest problem with Commons is that the MediaWiki software is not really set up to be an image repository. What works very well for articles does not work so well for groups of files -- it is hard to find things which are uncategorized, it is hard to tell when new things have arrived, and unless you have 200 images on your watchlists it is hard to tell when image descriptions are changed (or vandalized) or the images themselves have been re-uploaded.
Examples probably help.
If you cruise through their IFD you can see a lot of this happening all the time.
FF