On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Though I like the IMSLP approach, I still like the totally free format of
> Commons galleries, and many categories have more than one gallery, so a
> standard approach may not work well. I do think WikiData can help with
> image navigation somehow, but I am just not sure how. As I understood Lua,
> this won't help.
>

It doesn't need to be a fixed structure, it can be a mix with some static
media galleries, and some dynamic galleries defined with Ask:
https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries



> Ahh - the dream of every Wiki(p/m)edian who has hit the wall on category
> limitations! I don't believe they will ever become superfluous. Rather, I
> think we should be increasing the use of categories (using them almost like
> tags) and even allowing empty categories using placeholders taken from
> existing Wikipedia articles that are missing pictures.


They could be complementary. For instance, there could be bots that would
tag images in the category "sagrada familia" as "depicts:sagrada familia".
And the other way round too.


> Also, I don't think
> many of our Sagrada familia photo contributors have an idea what a query
> is, nor do they care about structured data.
>

And neither they should! Better to ask: "what is in the picture?" and let
them pick any item from wikidata to tag it with.


>
> Using your example, We could split the "Towers of Sagrada familia" into
> each tower, then into each sculpture on each tower, etc. Volunteers decide
> the structure of the categories that may or may not match up with WikiData
> items, but only filled categories are visible to the casual browser. The
> next time someone uploads something into the default Sagrada Familia
> category, there could be push messages to the uploader displaying something
> from the empty category placeholders, along the lines of "Z-language
> Wikipedia is missing a picture of X tower - does this file show that?"
>

Excellent idea! Actually any part of Sagrada Familia that can have a
gallery page, could fulfill the criteria for having a Wikidata item. There
we can store data about the item and its relation with the whole ("sagrada
familia right tower"<part of>"Sagrada Familia") or about the height,
builders, status, etc.
Then it becomes trivial to display the whole tree and signal which parts
are missing. As an example of tree check:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?q=Q1785783&rp=361&lang=en&method=list&depth=4

If this tree was connected with Commons, then I could know which
compositions miss audio and try to find a recording.
Same for any building that can be partitioned. Just build the concept tree
in Wikidata, tag the images appropriately and then you have a very nice
overview about which parts miss pictures.


> The WLM project has a rough version of this with the "easy upload link" for
> the unique identifiers:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments#Unique_identifiers
>
> This puts the infrastructure on Wikipedia along with the prompt to upload.
> It would be nice if the prompt to upload could be on Commons directly.
>
> Perfect, later on it could be used a standard wikidata identifier to tag
images with the same result.

Micru
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