There has been a lot of non-positive community feedback about
categorization. The plan that there are 5,000 red-link categories that
now need mapping/moving seems unrealistic in the short term,[1]
considering the relatively small active population of volunteers
interested in spending their time doing it. It's something that could
have been predicted and circumvented before upload, and it's not an
approach for batch uploads that should be thought of as normal -
imagine the fuss if this were 100,000 images or a million!
It strikes me that Commons' norms for larger batch uploads are hard
for newer mass uploaders to absorb, my own processes for upload
projects, some over ten times bigger than this one, have evolved a lot
through experimentation over the past 3 years, and I know I could
never write this down in a way that would be useful, apart from
pointing to past quietly successful projects that worked well and
might be similar. My projects relying on non-English metadata mapping
have been tricky, especially as I have no language skills, and tended
to re-enforce the view that Commons' way of forcing English categories
on everything, is something that ought to improve in the future.
Frankly, it's equally hard to imagine how this would be implemented in
a way that would not make categorization ridiculously arcane and
become a barrier for newer contributors in the way that seemed to be
the case for multilingual templates.
If the burndown of the category backlog stays an on-going issue, and
there are more complaints over the next week or two, it would be
beneficial to comment out all the red-links by bot and then leave
longer term housekeeping to roll on using hidden data that then does
not flood maintenance backlogs which appears the root cause of several
complaints in the past week.
Links
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC#Work_in_progress
Thanks,
Fae
On 10 April 2016 at 19:20, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
ankry.wiki, 09/04/2016 00:10:
Categorization of these images seems to be a big problem.
Category names shouldn't be in Italian.
They will not be, see
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC#Work_in_progress .
Nemo-BEIC
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