Hoi.
The problem with Commons is that its categories will be largely redundant
once Wikidata type technology will replace them, It will be just a question
of having a query for the result that you want.. If you want to have fences
in mauve, by all means, query for it but there may be the surprise that
there are none.
Creating items for categories for Commons is imho an exercise in
futility.. What is the point after all ? Having those categories may mean
that we have a clue what queries are of interest..So when people add those
categories, it is current best practice.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 August 2015 at 16:51, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
the problem I see is that commons will always
have more categories than
wikipedia can have articles take fences, commons has wooden fences this
broken into many cats including wooden fences in a country, this then grows
and then gets broken into sub national entities while the number of
articles on wikipedia remains at one commons now has 196 country articles
with anything between 5 and 50 sub national entities, then some idiot
paints his fence now we have wooden fences by colour in a little over 3000
pantone colours....
What I'm seeing here is solution that has the horse pushing the cart
problem lies not in linking commons cats to wikipedia articles wikidata but
in ensuring wikidata articles are linked to the full range of categories
available on commons and that those links can be easily adjusted as
necessary
On 30 August 2015 at 18:42, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Luca Martinelli, 30/08/2015 12:03:
Am I the only one that thinks that jheald's
.js is a temporary solution?
Am I the only one that actually appreciate his attempt at solving a
*practical* problem by providing a *practical* solution,
It might be a practical solution, but I don't understand what it solves:
what's the practical problem?
Quoting from the project chat, the problem to me seems this: «2.4
millions categories are not connected to corresponding Wikipedia articles.
[...] — Ivan A. Krestinin (talk) 20:22, 18 August 2015 (UTC)».
Nemo
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