On 29 October 2010 02:11, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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.
:Let me precis several years' wishlisting on the topic:
* Tagging would be vastly helpful.
* Tags would need to be able to be queried with possibly quite complex
Boolean queries.
* Categories as tags would make a transition feasible from the content side.
* A mockup in Postgres worked great, but MySQL was crippled by it.
* Thus, mooted workarounds using Lucene.
* There's something on the toolserver that does this, but it's not
integrated into how Commons works at all unless you know it's there.
(Anything I've missed?)
- d.