Michael Snow wrote:
On 10/28/2010 6:11 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
>> I was just talking about this with some other people at the WMF... I
>> don't fully understand the ramifications of the debate, but it seems
>> obvious to me that categories as implemented are not useful.
>>
>> The debate I see on Commons and elsewhere focuses on trying to fix
>> Categories, but frankly IMO it would be better to migrate them to some
>> other systems entirely.
>At any rate, I don't know that they can be fixed without at least being
>forked. Right now, categories are being used to serve two purposes,
>tagging and hierarchical organization. By being pulled in two
>directions, it's impossible to do either all that well, and sometimes
>the tensions have other undesirable consequences. For example,
>categorization awkwardness gets
in the way of good management of
>potentially offensive images.
>
>--Michael Snow
I assume Commons will be greater if Categories are localised. We should have the possibility to set by fault English language for categories, and add on it the translations as if they are a template.
That's could be really powerfull, the multilingual search on commons will be improve by this way. Currently a search in French, in Italian, in Portuguese or English don't give the same results because of false friend words or inexisting description in another language than English. Since commons is a multilingual web site, "a way of a good management of potentially offensive images" is to improve the search tool.