On 20 May 2014 02:16, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
I'll be leaving Commons categorisation until it's tags rather than ridiculously specific subcategories.
Commons has tags right now: they're called categories. Or is there a distinction you're making? :-)
We've been talking about this for years ... picking the precise subsubsubcategory is a pain in the backside. Most or all would also fall out as Boolean queries on tags.
I've been here since 2004 and I still go to Commons and have trouble finding the subsubsubcategory I'm actually looking for in the search.
Expecting users to know our category tree is user-obnoxious. Tags are common.
As Gerard notes, they would also solve the problem that everything is categorised in English.
I vaguely recall a proof-of-concept was coded and working in Postgres several years ago, but the same thing had unusable performance in MySQL so the idea was shelved.
- d.