AFBorchert added a subscriber: AFBorchert. AFBorchert added a comment. This is complex as the Commons category system is far deeper than any other category system. Take as example Category:Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cathédrale_Notre-Dame_de_Chartres> (which is not even linked to Q180274 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180274> as preference was given to the gallery page which is of no real importance to Commons. This category comes with subcategories like Category:Exterior of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Exterior_of_Cathédrale_Notre-Dame_de_Chartres>, Category:Portals of Notre-Dame de Chartres <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Portals_of_Notre-Dame_de_Chartres>, Category:Royal portal of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Royal_portal_of_Cathédrale_Notre-Dame_de_Chartres>, and finally even Category:Right bay of Royal portal of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Right_bay_of_Royal_portal_of_Cathédrale_Notre-Dame_de_Chartres>, all properly nested in this order. It seems unpractical to link all these categories to Wikidata items. If you look at these cases, you see a stem, i.e. "Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres" (which is in French as it is considered a proper noun <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun>) and various general specializations like "exterior of", "portals of" etc. We need an approach to tackle these composite category names by defining naming schemes which should be translated instead of translating each category individually.
Another problem at Commons is the multidimensionality which is not yet supported by the category system. Look at Category:Art <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art> where you find various "Art by ..." categories like Category:Art by location <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_by_location>, Category:Art by medium <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_by_medium>, or Category:Art by period <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_by_period>. There are many categories resulting from some combination of these dimensions like Category:Art by year by country <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_by_year_by_country>, Category:Sculptures by year by country <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sculptures_by_year_by_country>, and Category:1888 sculptures in the United States <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1888_sculptures_in_the_United_States>. All these categories would have not been necessary when automatic intersections of multidimensional categories would be supported. Then "sculpture" and "United States" would have to be translated just once and not for each odd category combination that exists at Commons. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120451 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: AFBorchert Cc: AFBorchert, Liuxinyu970226, Jarekt, JEumerus, Johan, daniel, Trizek-WMF, Shizhao, Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, Steinsplitter, StudiesWorld, DannyH, Izno, NiharikaKohli, Fhocutt, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Ricordisamoa, -jem-, Mbch331, Jay8g, Krenair _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
