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.
Florian Farge aka Otourly
Sur lesprojets wikimédiens et l'Association française,sur OxyRadio, OSM, et sur
MOVIM
Socio di Wikimedia Italia
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