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[edit]- Files should be identified and reused with a unique number like
[[File:M56856129|thumb|example]]. This would eliminate 1 of 3 things doing roughly the same thing: filename, caption, description; and all the rules and maintenance tasks about filename like Category:Media requiring renaming. - Categories should become something like tags or wikidata properties. Each category should deal with 1 specific concept. When categories behave like wikidata items, then they can take on multilingual labels and aliases. Users can therefore no longer be troubled with which name to use, which name needs to be disambiguated, etc. Intersection categories also become useless. Instead of searching for Category:Yellow houses users can search "depicts=houses; colour=yellow"; "location=london; type=photograph; date=2010-03-01" instead of Category:London photographs taken on 2010-03-01...
Previously written: Commons:Requests_for_comment/Categories_of_photographs_by_country_by_date#c-RoyZuo-20240510175700-Limitation_of_mediawiki_search_engine.
- Further, even "(article)" (main) namespace pages on wikipedia etc. should also become something like wikidata items. Then its title can take on lowercase initial, or any illegal characters, just like how file caption has no such limitation.
- It has been quite some time (writing as of 20:39, 7 December 2024 (UTC)) since I started avoiding nominating categories for discussion or moving categories, even if they have obviously unsuitable titles, as long as they dont interfere with the categories I use, because it's a waste of all users' effort and time. As I now recognise, all these problems about mw:Manual:Page_title (be it filename, or category title) can be solved by a different technical design.
to-do list
[edit]- to-do list: commons maintenance that I cant do due to lack of time.
- universal archive calendar template in new to old order
- Commons:File requests map https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:DB111#Geogroup_fuer_Seite_auf_Commons ; header
- v graphic guide
- photo challenge vertical table
- 1 click to https://xtools.wmcloud.org/topedits/commons.wikimedia.org/username/4/Sandbox
- 1 click to ocr
- MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js make a fork with input container at bottom not top
- cat move bot capable of suppressing redirect (User:SteinsplitterBot moves cats without option to suppress, i think?)
- target doesnt exist? easy
- redirect yes: SteinsplitterBot
- redirect no: new bot
- target exists? compare create dates -> new bot/script
- target older? easy. redirect (then optionally delete)
- target newer? delete target for a super short period, then bot moves cat.
- target doesnt exist? easy