Re: [Wikitech-l] Image search

2020-11-17 Thread Dan Andreescu
I was using the new search interface that Eric mentioned above and I was able to find a few exterior corner lamps indeed. So I'm wondering if you tried it and if you have any feedback: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch?type=bitmap=exterior+lantern+Corner On Tue, Nov 17,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image search

2020-11-17 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 2020-11-16 17:08, Roy Smith wrote: Perhaps not exactly what was asked, but Google Images has the ability.  Go to images.google.com , click the camera icon, and then you can paste a URL for the image. This is perhaps the best suggestion so far. But it is limited.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image search

2020-11-16 Thread Roy Smith
> On Nov 15, 2020, at 7:18 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > > This is where I want to find more images like these, > not in the same category, just similar photos. Perhaps not exactly what was asked, but Google Images has the ability. Go to images.google.com , click the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image search

2020-11-16 Thread Eric Gardner
Hi Lars– Searching on Commons does indeed leave much to be desired. My team (Structured Data) has been working on a new search experience that is hopefully better; it involves both some back-end improvements to the algorithm (adding structured data on File pages to the search index) as well as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Image search

2020-11-16 Thread Kosta Harlan
Special:MediaSearch seems to work better: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch?type=bitmap=exterior+lantern+corner , if I've understood what you're looking for. Kosta On 16/11/2020 01:18, Lars Aronsson wrote: I've been contributing to Wikipedia since 2001 and to Wikimedia

[Wikitech-l] Image search

2020-11-15 Thread Lars Aronsson
I've been contributing to Wikipedia since 2001 and to Wikimedia Commons since 2005. I'm not new to this. Wikimedia Commons now has millions of images and thousands of categories. But it's really hard to find anything. Today I was looking for photos of buildings that have an exterior lantern on