[WikiEN-l] Re: Categories for images?

Thu Jul 15 23:57:42 UTC 2004

I think this would work up to a point. Invoking categorization of
images *only* through article categories would not perhaps not bring
into a account the ontological hierachies that exists for images. For
examples, historical U.S. maps could be within [[Category:U.S.
history]], but they could also be collected under an image-related
category of all historical maps, which is a subcategory of all maps.
This particular hierachy may not be one that is natural for articles,
so it may be the case where we need image-only categories. I've come
to this conclucsion through some experimentation with this. I think
doing within the existing framework would be very useful.

I like Timwi's idea of [[Category:Image:xxxxx]]. Some coding to
produce thumbnails in these categories might not be too strenuous.

Rowan Collins said:
> Sj wrote:
>> Cat display /should/ distinguish source types; articles,
>> images, and {other media} can be shown separately for
>> each group without further metadata, leveraging existing
>> namespaces.
>
> That's a very good point - each category could have a partitioned off
> section for "Images in this category" as seperate from "Articles in
> this category", with no extra work on the user's part.
>
> I was also going to suggest that one benefit of having separate image
> categories is that they could be displayed as auto-thumbnailed
> galleries, rather than lists of links. I guess even this could be
> done
> within the existing structure - although it would become even *more*
> important to have a decent multi-page results system...
>
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