Commons:WikiProject Gallery pages
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At present the gallery pages, which are the main namespace for Wikimedia Commons, are being created in an ad hoc manner. In order to develop the gallery pages we need to plan the workflow and develop policies and guidelines.
What are gallery pages?[edit]
Gallery pages are collections of files and text to allow those who use Wikimedia Commons find what they are looking for. They should be multilingual and present a cross section of files, including featured, quality, and valued images.
The problem[edit]
As of early 2015 the main method of browsing Wikimedia Commons is the category system. Categories have inherent limitations and many of them are cluttered with the wrong images. The gallery pages are an alternative but complimentary method to categories for browsing Wikimedia Commons. Unfortunately they are poorly developed.
A snapshot of all of the categories in Category:Gallery pages as of 7 January 2015 is:
- Category:Gallery of animals (2 C, 261 P)
- Category:Gallery of Bible illustrations (39 P)
- Category:François de Boyvin du Villars (1 P, 2 F)
- Category:Gallery pages of Chile (2 C, 1 P)
- Category:Gallery pages about films (89 P)
- Category:Gallery pages about flags (57 P
- Category:Painting galleries (25 P, 1 F)
- Category:Postage stamps gallery pages (110 P)
- Category:SVG galleries (1 C, 14 P, 2 F)
- Category:Gallery pages of Switzerland (2 C, 3 P)
A small section of the 1074 listed pages in the category at the same time is this contiguous list:
...(69230) Hermes, (87) Sylvia, (99942) Apophis, (الجزائر (مدينة, +Laburnocytisus, .22 Long Rifle, .243 Winchester, .25 ACP, .303 British, .32 ACP, .357 Magnum, .38 ACP, .380 ACP, .40 S&W, .44 Magnum, .45 ACP, .45 Colt, .45 GAP, .50 AE, .50 BMG, .500 S&W Magnum, 0.999…, 0129.Amandine, 060DA, 1, 1 (number), 1. August in Laufenburg, 1. Badisches Leib-Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 109, 1. FC Köln, 1. FC Union Berlin, 1/8/2010 Guangzhou protest, 10 Palace Gate, 10,5 cm kanon M/34 ...
This shows that gallery pages are being developed by editors with a specific interest. Major topics and popular pages are quite likely to have poor coverage via gallery pages and since Wikimedia Commons is well used resource it is imperative that this situation is rectified.
Work needed[edit]
- Research usability of Wikimedia Commons
- Develop individual galley page templates for the major topics such as years, countries, topics etc
- Develop a Manual of style
- Develop a deletion policy
- Develop maintenance and usage templates
- Develop pages naming policy ("Gallery" vs "Galleries" for example)
- Develop a notability policy
- Create the gallery pages
- Create the gallery pages category structure
- Once the major topics are established promote gallery pages through the Main Page
Specific tasks
- Where appropriate convert the galleries in the pages of Category:Categories with a gallery for a better choice of sub-categories into standalone gallery pages. See also [1]
- Choose a SORTORDER for gallery pages
- Fill in the gaps in Category:Gallery pages by century and Category:Gallery pages by country
Procedural notes
- The first iteration of categorisation does not have to follow the complete category heirarchy that currently exists for other pages since there is insufficient gallery pages to fill them all. A shorter (smaller height) category heirarchy is sufficient at this stage.
Draft guidelines[edit]
- Page names (discuss)
("Gallery pages" rather that "Galleries" is used to avoid confusion with architectural galleries)Categories containing collections of galleries should be of the formCategory:Gallery pages by TOPICorCategory:Gallery pages of TOPIC, i.e. the plural form is used- Care must be taken to avoid confusion with architectural galleries
- Categories containing gallery pages only should be of the form
Category:TOPIC (galleries) - Pages name conventions should follow what already exists in the Wikimedia Commons categorisation scheme and where it does not exist the Wikipedia scheme should be followed
- Capitalisation should follow the style used elsewhere on Commons
- Consistency should be used for page names
- Gallery page names should be plural or singular depending on the topic, e.g. Domesday Book is singular since there is only one, and Dogs, Cats, Maps should be plural
- Deletion policy (discuss)
- Galleries containing a small number [value needed?] of files with little or no text should be deleted unless it is a major topic [define]
- Categories
- Categories should only contain gallery pages and subcategories. Individual files are not classed as galleries.
Progress[edit]
- All extant year galleries from 1901 to 2015 are categorised. Alan Liefting (talk) 05:41, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Related pages[edit]
- Category:Gallery pages - the root for all of the gallery pages
- Commons:Featured galleries
- Commons:Galleries - official Commons guideline
- Help:Gallery
- Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy
Statistics[edit]
At the end of September 2013, there were:
- 110,000 galleries (without redirects, compare to 2,950,000 categories)
- 34,500 of these galleries had just one or two images
In the three months from July to September 2013, there were approx.:
- 6000 non-bot edits
- 1500 CommonsDelinker edits in gallery namespace.
SQL to check is available here.
Members[edit]
- Alan Liefting (talk · contribs) 22:34, 6 January 2015 (UTC) - I feel that an extensive collection of gallery pages should be developed to make it easer for those who use the Wikimedia Commons resource
- Mateus2019 (talk · contribs)