Verdy_p added a comment.
Yes but this adds many constraints on talk pages (e.g. with archiving of discussions, or people attempting to talk and posting incorrect links to categories in these talk pages, that will become then hard to cleanup if everything is mixed (forcing to edit all these discussions, especially if they post contents with template calls). The alternative would be to use other talking systems, but LiquidThread for example is no longer maintained and has its problems. We should think about real metadata as part of "Data:*" pages containing JSON. It should be possible by using a format for the page that contains both the JSON and the categories, usign a MediaWiki syntax. The JSON part would itself be embedded and queryable from the wiki page. Another way would be to really integrate a real metadata store for all pages (which could also integrate categories, but it will be difficult due to the way they are inserted conditionally by MediaWiki templates, so they are still stored in the Wiki content itself). The last alternative is Semantic MEdiawiki that implements such separate store. If you don't want to incldue all of Semantic Mediawiki, may be a part of it, compatible with it (so that it can still contain its own extensions). The last alternative it to use Wikidata for this store... But all this is a huge architectural problem for its integration. Why wasn't a system like the pair of "File:"/"Media:" namespaces used for "Data:"? After all JSON data files are like "Media:" with their own Media-Type, and the wiki page should be used for its description and categorization, and the pair "Data:"/"Media:" namespaces would have worked as well, reusing most of what we already do for all other media file types, and it could have made possible to also use different schemas for JSON files, or schemas for other data formats (like CVS/TSV, XML, may be even spreadsheet formats). TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181319 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Verdy_p Cc: Verdy_p, Jheald, Zache, Vojtech.dostal, Abbe98, Ainali, Manuel, Lectrician1, Inductiveload, Theklan, Justin0x2004, johanricher, So9q, Moebeus, CamelCaseNick, Librarian_lena, Gnoeee, John_Cummings, mxn, Base, Ferdinand0101, Mahir256, Bugreporter, Daniel_Mietchen, NavinoEvans, Pasleim, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Smalyshev, Aklapper, Yurik, Astuthiodit_1, AWesterinen, bking, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, MPhamWMF, maantietaja, CBogen, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, ET4Eva, Dinadineke, Nandana, Namenlos314, tabish.shaikh91, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, Jayprakash12345, JakeTheDeveloper, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, LawExplorer, Avner, StuartPrior, Silverfish, Reasno, Gehel, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Jonas, FloNight, Xmlizer, Volker_E, SBisson, mys_721tx, Jane023, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, jayvdb, zhuyifei1999, TheDJ, Mbch331, Jay8g
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