On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why is it still, now in 2014, so hard to find images? > We have categories and descriptions, but we also know > they don't describe all that we want to find in an > image. If I need an image with a bicycle and some red > flowers, I can only go to the category:bicycles and > hope that I'm lucky when browsing through the first > 700 images there. Most likely, the category will be > subdivided by country or in some other useless way > that will make my search harder. > Four years ago I requested the "Wikimedia Category Flattening" feature: http://marc.info/?l=wikitech-l&m=126525308906767 Fast forward back to 2014 and with an additional 1000 high resolution files uploaded to wikimedia (over 95% of my photos are released into the public domain -- it's more "free" than the iStock editorial license), that feature is still not done. IMO, a better search function for Wikimedia Commons would be way more useful than the WYSIWYG editor for Wikipedia! Rayson ================================================== Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/GridEngine/GridEngineCloud.html > > Where is science? Google was created in 1998, based > on its Pagerank algorithm for web pages filled with > words and links. That was 14 years ago. But what > algorithms are there for finding images? > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
