On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Oliver Koslowski <o....@t-online.de> wrote:
> Am 18.09.2011 13:56, schrieb Andre Engels: > > On itself the one who tags the image, but we happen to have a system for > > that in Wikimedia. It is called discussion and trying to reach consent. > Who > > decides whether a page is in a category? Who decides whether a page has > an > > image? Who decides whether something is decribed on a page? All the same. > > Our typical system of categories is designed to make it easier to /find/ > (related) articles or media. Good luck trying that with a system that is > designed to /hide/ things. I don't see a difference. I want to show images showing so-and-so, or I do not want to see them. It's all about saying whether images show so-and-so. > And this doesn't seem like an awful waste of > precious time to you? For a feature that is not all that likely to be > popular on a global scale? > It depends. If people want to do it, it is their choice how to use their volunteering time. If they don't, then bad luck to those using the feature. I do agree that there are dozens of things in Wikipedia/Wikimedia/Mediawiki that I'd rather see; I chose the secon-lowest rating in the referendum, and might well have chosen the lowest had I not expected that to be understood as "I am against this". I do think there are many better things to do with our time and other means. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
