[Foundation-l] 1.6 Billion USD to spare? How about liberation of some pictures

Wed Jan 23 12:46:39 UTC 2008

Hoi,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_OmegaWiki_for_Commons is the way in
which Commons can have tagging with multi lingual functionality. This is
what I think Commons needs. I think this is the time to start doing this.
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Jan 23, 2008 1:08 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/01/2008, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Success is less about the content, and more about *the collection* and
> > the search. Google made its first zillion billion not because it
> > controlled a lot of content but because it helped people find a lot of
> > other people's content.
>
>
> The search, the search, the search! "We have Wikimedia Commons, with
> millions of freely-reusable pre-cleared photos. It's like Getty Images
> with a really crap search."
>
> (No, not even Mayflower has fixed that.)
>
>
> > I think this is an area where commons really has something to offer:
> > Universally editable metadata could make for impressive search power,
> > and free licensing means all images are available for use (sometimes,
> > with copyleft works, at the price of freely releasing your own work).
>
>
> If turning categories into tags within Mediawiki is unlikely to happen
> soon (I recall the previous experiment where on Postgres it was lovely
> and on MySQL it was horribly slow ... and there's zero chance of
> Wikimedia abandoning MySQL in the foreseeable future) - what about a
> "tags" template for image pages, which can then be parsed by a search
> application on the toolserver? Update daily or something. Then an
> image can have 10 or 100 or 1000 tags, even if that many Mediawiki
> categories would be problematic to display or process. Sound feasible?
>
> (cc to commons-l and wikitech-l)
>
>
> - d.
>
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