On 29 October 2010 09:32, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:

On 29 October 2010 02:11, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk@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.

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