[Commons-l] Radical proposal

Thu Jul 13 13:04:42 UTC 2006

I find it very disappointing that folks here don't find human driven
presentation of content to be valuable.  Will we now be deleting the
commons main page and simply redirecting it to a category?

This will force projects to build their own true gallery pages rather
than build them on commons.  Because of the difficulty of building
truly multilingual things on commons the incentive to avoid working on
commons already exists... this will just increase it further. :(

On 7/11/06, stevertigo <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Crossposted to
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Radical_proposal
>
> Since sorting images seems to be a categorical affair, and that articles here do not
> require much in the way of articles or descriptions, is it possible to make article
> pages function as if they were a category?
> It would save some typing, and reduce use of static linkage (ie. articles) in favor of
> dynamic likage (ie. categories).
>
> "Articles" in turn would require fitting into a namespace, though I agree that would
> seem to defy convention.
> Again, this idea is based on the notion that everything could fit into category pages,
> or commons: pages, and little else. A migration/integration campaign would be required.
>
>
> Steven
>
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