On 14 September 2015 at 15:30, Tuszynski, Jarek W. <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that most of the galleries on Commons are semi useless and out of > date, and I can not think of a situation when I would prefer to land at a > Gallery page rather than Category page when following a interwiki link. But > what do you suggest when proposing to completely kill all the galleries? > Delete them all?
This overlooks some quite beautiful results from the hard work of some Commonists on galleries. As a counter example you should consider how our long term specialist contributor Orchi, lovingly creates categories such as <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collection_d'orchid%C3%A9es> which does the useful job of mapping out early illustrations and names of orchids to their modern names and identifies interesting early plant names where probably nobody knows of a modern name... these galleries certainly add to the sum of human knowledge and happen to be more useful than the source categories. Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
