Galleries still make it much easier to navigate and sort images to a newbie, and the categorization system may be too complex for them.
> On Sep 14, 2015, "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? > > Jarek T. > User:Jarekt > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Schwen > Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 2:40 PM > To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Commons-l] [Wikidata] Trends in links from Wikidata items to > Commons > > 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 _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
