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Funnily, I just answered that question on Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-second-image-returned-on-Wikimedia-Commons-when
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Funnily, I just answered that question on Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-second-image-returned-on-Wikimedia-Commons-when-one-searches-for-electric-toothbrush-an-image
others.
Andreas
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*From:* Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.org bhar...@wikimedia.org
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Funnily, I just answered that question on Quora
does.
Andreas
From: Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thursday, 13 October 2011, 19:31
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Commons Searches
One easy way to fix all of these searches is to create Gallery pages for these
terms
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Commons Searches
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pearl_necklaces
Wee!
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote:
The first hit is a gallery page.
From Wikipedia articles we link to Commons and limit it to galleries images
if one
On 10/14/11, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Ryan,
Creating galleries would mitigate the problem for these half-dozen searches
(though not eliminate it, as users would still have the option of searching
Commons rather than navigating to a Commons page).
But it's like the story of
John,
From: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
(Searching for levee in Commons brings up an image of a
naked Suicide Girl called Levee in third place.)
Its a thumbnail for !@#$ sake, and anyone who finds that image
offensive should turn off their internet connection.
It's a perfectly nice
: [Gendergap] Commons Searches
Unfortunately we currently have zero developers working on search (as far as I
know). There are several more significant search bugs that are also not going
to be fixed any time soon. Another issue is that our search engine is Java
while the rest of MediaWiki is PHP
Brandon,
Would it be a lot of work to give primary weight in the Commons search listing
order to files included in
1. Categories (top level only) and
2. Galleries
whose name matches the search term (or is the plural thereof)?
So the top files listed for cucumber, say, would be all the
Brandon,
On a matter that originally arose in Meta and on the Foundation list,
but may be of interest to this list as well, do you know the answer to the
question posed here ...
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-October/006290.html
... or do you know someone who does?
WHOA that's fascinating...weird...disturbing..something
Perhaps that's why someone asked about electric toothbrushes and cucumbers
on #wikimedia-gendergap the other day :P
-Sarah
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Brandon,
On a matter that
Funnily, I just answered that question on Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-second-image-returned-on-Wikimedia-Commons-when-one-searches-for-electric-toothbrush-an-image-of-a-female-masturbating
On 10/12/11 7:48 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
Brandon,
On a matter that originally
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Funnily, I just answered that question on Quora:
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-second-image-returned-on-Wikimedia-Commons-when-one-searches-for-electric-toothbrush-an-image-of-a-female
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