On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar
<neilk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
As for the Wiki(p|m)edia thing, I have to say I agree
100%, although I
don't know what other complications there might be.
On 10/28/10 1:21 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Now, the second part. Finding pictures in
Commons
is really hard. It seems that categories and textual
descriptions are added by the uploader, and rarely
modified or enhanced by others. Finding a map of bird
migration paths across Europe might be easy, but
finding a plain and simple map of Europe is hard.
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.
I agree.
I've been mumbling about creating a design doc or
mockups for my ideas
to a few people at the WMF... is anyone else interested in working on this?
IMO, the problem is not how it looks, but the utility of the information.
If the metadata was more accessible, more people would fill it in.
see e.g.
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Dublin_Core
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John Vandenberg