No new wikidata feature on commons whiteout community consensus please. This stuff seems to be very controversial. (#shellpolicy, #community-consensus-needed)
From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 21:38:35 +0200 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Commons-l] [Wikidata] Trends in links from Wikidata items to Commons Hoi, Killing categories on Commons is a bit premature. Until the time we start working in earnest on Commons, it is probably not the categories we will do first. Easiest and more obvious are data that is of relevance and is kept in templates like the "Creator" or the "Institution" template. As it is, a majority of them are already linked to Wikidata. Making a complete change for having this data in Wikidata means that such information is available in all languages. Another aspect is in data like licenses and similar info. That could be done easy as well because it is already largely structured. Categories on Commons are "peculiar". It will be interesting what the discussions will be once it will be discussed in earnest. Thanks, GerardM On 13 September 2015 at 20:39, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, before we write off the category system (as living-in-the-future-Gerard seems to do ;-) we should probably rather think about killing galleries. All of them. Completely. Galleries require a considerable maintenance overhead, and I would argue that that work is better spent on categorizing our content. We could replace galleries by allowing select images to retain high level categories (for example through a template so the don't accidentally get diffused down the tree). The captions in galleries are just an i18n nightmare and a data duplication of the description texts. This does not entirely solve the problem of still having the Creator namespace, but if were up to me, we'd _not_ interwikilink there, but rather to the "Works by .." category, because that is what I think people expect to find on commons: Images Cheers, Daniel On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 28 Aug 2015, at 18:40, Reguyla <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This is one reason I create the pahbricator request for Commons to have its >> own Site box rather than fall under "Other wiki's". That would allow us to >> link an item to its corresponding Gallery, Category, Creator or whatever. >> Right now we can only like to Commons category via the Other Wiki's and >> although we can link Galleries, Creator and the like as data items, they are >> not "linked" as site links. > > This would be very useful - I think this would be a good way forward that > would avoid the whole 'page vs. category' debate. The Phabricator ticket is > at: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102417 > > Thanks, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
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