Commons:Categorization requests
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Categorization requests
[edit]Large-scale / difficult
[edit]OWID charts by latest datapoint and maps by year
[edit]Please add categories for the years of the data maps by Our World in Data as well as OWID charts by the latest data point into Category:Charts by year of latest data.
This is useful for many reasons such as making things in the image explicit as metadata, making things queryable (for example combining cats using petscan), statistics, search (see the search box in the category), better enabling people to find the latest version for some data, better WMC search engine results (often there's outdated at the top of MediaSearch results), and (probably most importantly) updating outdated/old datagraphics that are in use (the tool GLAMorgan can be used for that if the files are categorized as described).
- Here is the petscan query for OWID maps with unspecified year (456 items)
- Here is the petscan query for OWID charts with unspecified year of latest data (~2704 items)
- I suggested that the OCR tool is adapted for that so it reads the text in the files and then retrieves the latest year number to allow you to add categories based on that. A problem is that sources specified in the image can also include a year number so one would have to differentiate between years in the title or Y/X axis and years somewhere in the text at the bottom of the image. In any case such a tool doesn't exist – only https://ocr.wmcloud.org/ and the request was archived after some discussion so it's unlikely to be implemented any time soon and there are probably more important issues to work on currently. Please also comment if you have some input in regards to such an OCR-categorizer tool.
--Prototyperspective (talk) 16:30, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- Currently, I sometimes work on these two by exporting the petscan results as described in (mainly) the bottom tile here and then dragging many urls into the browser so it opens them all in new tabs and then go through them manually to add the year. Maybe the OCR would make mistakes sometimes and it could be difficult to develop. I still think it would be useful. If I ever finish adding this metadata to the files, there could also be many more OWID files. If they are imported with some OWID importer tool like this, they may (and should) have the respective cats by default but people could also upload them otherwise without adding these. Sometimes cat-a-lot can be used from users' Uploads pages when they uploaded many files in a row (e.g. maps showing the same year). Prototyperspective (talk) 23:44, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
Resolving videos by language contradictions
[edit]Please resolve contradictions in categorizations of videos by language which are very useful and quite of self-explanatory. People don't understand videos in languages other than the one(s) they understand, especially if there also are no subtitles. Categorization by languages enables people to more easily find videos in their language or selectively search them (also the deepcategory search operator may work with that category since it's more flat than other cats). This is also useful for finding videos to redub or add subtitles to and many other things.
Contradictions can be found by combining languages. There probably is a better way but one could for example search for deepcategory:"Videos in Spanish" deepcategory:"Videos in English" (link) to find videos that seem to have contradictory categorization: these should go into either Category:Multilingual videos or into a category that has Category:Categories with contradictory categorization set. In this example, files would be in either the English or Spanish language videos branch, and creating new subcategories like Category:NIOSH videos about respirators in Spanish are usually required for that (one can use cat-a-lot).
For Categories with contradictory categorization, there probably should be a way to resolve these contradictions, for example through changing the categorization since files are not categorizable in the way of "all of these files belong into the category except exceptions CYZ". Lastly, at some point people may want to write the video language to the structured data of the file according to the categories set but I doubt it would add much since there already are categories for that and structured data on files is barely seen or used – just something to keep in mind.
--Prototyperspective (talk) 11:01, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
Adding missing categories to "…by name" categories
[edit]For example one could query items in Category:Screenshots of free software but not in Category:Screenshots of free software by name or somehow categories that should be in but aren't in Category:Free software by name. Many subcategories of Category:Products by name for example are very incomplete. It would be helpful if infoboxes set these by name categories automatically depending on what is set on the Wikidata item. The cats are at Category:Categories by name.
--Prototyperspective (talk) 13:26, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
Medium
[edit]Please copy and maybe subcategorize videos as described. I think such time-lapse videos are the most interesting ones when it comes to time-lapse videos of cities. --Prototyperspective (talk) 16:30, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
Missing items of Category:Tutorial videos by language
[edit]Deepcategory search could be used for that. --Prototyperspective (talk) 12:56, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
Subcategories of Category:World statistics
[edit]Could also be large-scale. Note that for every new subcategory created one should also search for files not yet within that category that belong into it. --Prototyperspective (talk) 12:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
Subcategories of Category:Categories per capita
[edit]Could also be large-scale. Note that for every new subcategory created one should also search for files not yet within that category that belong into it. --Prototyperspective (talk) 12:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
Recurrent cleanups
[edit]PD-algorithm
[edit]Files with the PD-algorithm license that were allegedly generated by AI need recurrent cleanup. Mainly, files that aren't AI-generated need to have this license removed or replaced and AI-generated media need to be subcategorized into Category:AI-generated images by software or similar subcats of Category:AI-generated media. One can use the thumbnail view of this PetScan query. --Prototyperspective (talk) 13:53, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
Small
[edit]Wikipedia-specific videos should be there, not only a random subset. --Prototyperspective (talk) 16:30, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
Missing items
[edit]The following categories miss many items. If you find a category both valid and useful but to be quite incomplete (you are quite sure there's many more files on this site) you can add it here. Find more…
Including a subcat for audio files of music.
(Of and about software development.)
(Especially files about media coverage of science.)
See List of Spoken Wikipedia files without specified subject. If this category is to not be deleted, it should probably contain most or nearly all of the audio files somehow. Moreover, subcategorization by language is probably needed (both of this would need to be done using tools like cat-a-lot and good queries).