Lars Aronsson wrote: >On 06/18/2014 06:14 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> If you search for 'incategory:"Red flowers"', you can find pictures in >> only that category. If you search for 'incategory:"Red flowers" >> incategory:"Bicycles"', you can see the intersection of these two >> categories. (No results currently, alas.) > >This requires that the interesting images have been >categorized as having red flowers. I could just as well >hope that the description text mentions red flowers, >and do a full text search. Both will fail, because this >detailed level of categorization/description is lacking.
This doesn't sound like a technical problem to me... can't you just add the relevant categories? It's a wiki, after all. Perhaps you're hoping for automatic image recognition? I don't think computing, as a science, is there yet. I think I read something about Google and videos of cats, but even the billionaires can't solve this problem, yet. Sorry. >Even though this picture is categorized as "fruit vendors", >it isn't categorized as apples, bananas, cherries, peaches, >and pears, or paper crates, or string, or mostly shadow >with a little sunshine on a sidewalk. With 21 million files, >how can we reach that level of detail in documentation? >[...] Click edit. Actually, Commons has HotCat enabled, so you can just click the (+) link, I imagine. What's the issue? >Here's a bicycle with red flowers, now categorized, [...] Cool, thanks for that. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
