On 29 October 2010 02:11, Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
