User:Incnis Mrsi/Science and Technology

Tasks for the project. A draft.

Primary objectives

Criteria for classes of images

Establish definitions:

• what is a “diagram”?
• what is a “plot”?
• what is a “chart”?
• what is a “drawing”?
• are there vector S&T-related images that are none of the above?

If a diagram contains items looking as charts, in which case should it be categorized under the “charts” subsystem?

Ramification of the categories’ graph

There are many directed paths going along the word “diagram” for too long. How many images of computer science or signal processing are not “diagrams”? But computer science diagrams and signal processing diagrams stay one floor below respective topics’ categories, serving not as helpful nodes, but as dead storage room. Deep “Category: abstract topic diagrams showing this and that” are useful, but they should be more accessible from the main topic’s category level.

In such abstract domains, photographs (the de facto default content class in most other places of Commons) a rarer than diagrams, and separate categorization of photographs should be considered, indeed.

Text on diagrams

There is a huge amount of diagrams that are not language-neutral sensu stricto, but can be broadly used internationally without any modification. The current system of of categories does not support this concept at all.

Also, some languages are virtually interchangeable and sometimes indistinguishable in small pieces. Bulgarian–Macedonian, Danish–Norwegian, Croatian–Bosnian, etc. The current system has no notion of this too.

Typography Lab

Instructions, good practices, procedures, and possibly software for making professional-level typography (especially in SVG). See Category: Typography fixes (except by creator) for details and examples.

Far-reaching objectives

Evaluation and deep semantic categorization of media, not in awkward and often cryptic templatespeak, but with something more usable. A platform running on top of Wikimedia Commons; see user_talk: Ariadacapo #(Science and Technology)-specific coordination. Formal concept analysis may be used as a part of the theoretical base.

May Structured data be of any help for it? Also may have loose connection to ideas discussed between Incnis_Mrsi and Gryllida (mostly privately) in 2014–15.

Category: Plots by quantity – which perspectives can be there?

Social stuff – see the same user_talk link above.