Re: [Commons-l] Active projects on Commons

Galleries need to be encouraged to higher degree, these galleries work well as a guide but also as a way for potential contributors to identify areas where theres a short fall in available media. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Banksia --- which then links to the species categories directly http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Western_Australia then steps down to; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Perth,_Western_Australia What about a bot reading descriptions identifying keywords then adding it to those categories as a way to reduce the reliance on editors to select the categories. The other thing is the search results try commons search for canoe http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=… google images search for canoe http://www.google.com.au/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1680&bih… Commons search returns a list most people will see the category link and only 4-6 images initially, compared to google 32 images and 5 alternative search options -- the layout of the results on commons could be alot better. Even simple things like the first return is a link to the category:Canoe the information it gives on the category is "*28 B (1 word) - 04:37, 27 September 2009*" thats not really enticing people to even look there, then click on the link and you hit a soft redirect to "Canoes" another click then returns 196 images, plus 8 subcat with a further 10 subcats and 290+ photos. That initial search should have return the category of Canoes(because thats what is used) and the descrition should be something like "*196 images, +27 subcats containing 472 images*" now that would entice people to explore the category If you search for the intiial example of Genetics<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch… get first on the list a link to the category its description is "2 KB (19 words) - 11:05, 10 November 2009" it does nothing to indicate the depth of information available, click on the category it lists just 5 subcats but theres 14 more if you page to the next 200 each with multiple subcats including one cat that has 25256 files. We need a search result screen that coveys the availablility information when a search occurs so that people are able to understand whats actually available. Whie the M/P issue is annoying most people once they are enter past the differences wont encounter it again. Commons could benefit with an address that is uniquely commons but commons function is as a repository to all projects maybe call it "Wikilibrary" to On 29 October 2010 10:11, John Vandenberg &lt;jayvdb(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com