> On 13 Sep 2015, at 19:39, 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
+1, I completely agree with this. > On 14 Sep 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? > > Jarek T. > User:Jarekt I also agree with this. In most of the cases where I've ended up on a gallery page, it hasn't been updated since 2009, and it's not really worth maintaining - in most cases I tend to merge these into the category page on sight. Simply merging all gallery pages into the corresponding category descriptions (where they can then be trimmed down as appropriate) would be a good way forward. There are some cases where this isn't the case, e.g. on high-profile topics where the galleries are relatively up-to-date and provide useful image links, but these seem to be fairly rare, and they often link to sub-par images rather than the best ones we have available on Commons. > On 14 Sep 2015, at 16:41, YiFei <[email protected]> wrote: > > Galleries still make it much easier to navigate and sort images to a newbie, > and the categorization system may be too complex for them. I can't say I've seen that happen - in most cases that I've seen, the category system makes more sense to the new editors. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
