| Ramsey-WMF added a comment. |
@Jheald thanks for the detailed comment. We have indeed worked on a number of the things you've mentioned, but for the sake of brevity I'll focus on the "man with hat" example you gave.
What we're working on now is similar to what you talk about. We aim to introduce an explicit depicts search to supplement searching for plain text strings.
You can see round 1 of designs for this here: https://wikimedia.invisionapp.com/share/B9MYIFJGVX7#/screens/308729068
As you said:
The user interface will therefore presumably need to lead the user away from searching for "man with hat" towards "human being who is male with hat".
This is exactly what we're attempting to do on search - a new interface that allows users to specify depicts statements and qualifiers that apply to it (we're starting with the default P180 qualifiers now but encourage Commonists to talk about which others they'll need). Additionally, we'll be adding features in UploadWizard, the File page, and other areas to encourage users to add depicts statements with useful qualifiers so that this kind of search can actually work (perhaps with the assistance of suggestions from image content recognition systems).
We are also currently building alpha working versions that allow us to test performance so we know for sure what's feasible in terms of response time, server load, etc. We hope to have this all ready in an update by end of year.
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