oh yeah Milan tomorrow for #wmhack :33
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oh yeah Milan tomorrow for #wmhack :33
@theresnotime have fun ^^
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oh yeah Milan tomorrow for #wmhack :33
I try not to go on about wikimedia stuff so much now butttttt if there's ever been a small, nagging, fixable-with-code*, MediaWiki issue/bug/feature you'd want to see worked on... :3
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I try not to go on about wikimedia stuff so much now butttttt if there's ever been a small, nagging, fixable-with-code*, MediaWiki issue/bug/feature you'd want to see worked on... :3
@theresnotime Heh, butt
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I try not to go on about wikimedia stuff so much now butttttt if there's ever been a small, nagging, fixable-with-code*, MediaWiki issue/bug/feature you'd want to see worked on... :3
@theresnotime Woah!! thats so cool
I personally use Wikimedia Commons daily actually, to find images of, for example, historical architecture or specific natural phenomena. I'll go visit categories like "Cheese factories in the United States in the 19th century" to find reference images for my art.
One thing however is making this super frustrating and I desperately wish it could be changed:
I desperately want the ability to view a gallery of all files in a given category and its subcategories.
I can't overstate how important this is.
If I need tons of reference images of, say, water castles in Europe, I'll go to the category "Water castles in Europe". But the only files in that category are the most generic files that didn't fit in any subcategory. Most images are in subcategories. But since the levels are so semantically granular sometimes, I need to open like 60 tabs of categories of the "Water castles in Rhineland-Palatinate photographed in 1592" kind, each containing like 2 files only.I'd rather have a big 'show all' gallery view that includes subcategories. Perhaps limit subcategory depth to a reasonable maximum if server load is a factor here.
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@theresnotime Woah!! thats so cool
I personally use Wikimedia Commons daily actually, to find images of, for example, historical architecture or specific natural phenomena. I'll go visit categories like "Cheese factories in the United States in the 19th century" to find reference images for my art.
One thing however is making this super frustrating and I desperately wish it could be changed:
I desperately want the ability to view a gallery of all files in a given category and its subcategories.
I can't overstate how important this is.
If I need tons of reference images of, say, water castles in Europe, I'll go to the category "Water castles in Europe". But the only files in that category are the most generic files that didn't fit in any subcategory. Most images are in subcategories. But since the levels are so semantically granular sometimes, I need to open like 60 tabs of categories of the "Water castles in Rhineland-Palatinate photographed in 1592" kind, each containing like 2 files only.I'd rather have a big 'show all' gallery view that includes subcategories. Perhaps limit subcategory depth to a reasonable maximum if server load is a factor here.
@lianna hey! I agree that itshould be easier to do that but in case it's useful as a workaround, you can go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search and search for deepcat:[your category]
I understand it will give you 5 subcategories depthlike this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=deepcat%3A%22Water+castles%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns6=1
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I try not to go on about wikimedia stuff so much now butttttt if there's ever been a small, nagging, fixable-with-code*, MediaWiki issue/bug/feature you'd want to see worked on... :3
@theresnotime why not go on about it?
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@lianna hey! I agree that itshould be easier to do that but in case it's useful as a workaround, you can go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search and search for deepcat:[your category]
I understand it will give you 5 subcategories depthlike this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=deepcat%3A%22Water+castles%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns6=1
@piracalamina Oh that's amazing! That's just what I had been looking for. I had never heard of this search parameter!
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@piracalamina Oh that's amazing! That's just what I had been looking for. I had never heard of this search parameter!
@lianna @piracalamina you might also want to use Special:MediaSearch with the deepcat search param as that looks a little nicer (imho)
e.g. https://w.wiki/MNK9
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@lianna @piracalamina you might also want to use Special:MediaSearch with the deepcat search param as that looks a little nicer (imho)
e.g. https://w.wiki/MNK9
@lianna @piracalamina though there's definitely a lot of other people who want some improvements done to this
I'll take a dig over wmhack to see if anything can be done (or at least try to bump this up the list of things to do!)
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@lianna @piracalamina though there's definitely a lot of other people who want some improvements done to this
I'll take a dig over wmhack to see if anything can be done (or at least try to bump this up the list of things to do!)
@theresnotime @piracalamina thank you so much!!
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