Category talk:Videos by year
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Contents of these categories need to be replaced with template like "{{VideoYear|189|5}}". --Infovarius (talk) 14:36, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Criteria? Bot?
[edit]- Is there some rough criteria to which files videos-by-year cats should be added?
I've mostly only added it to videos that are either notable (such as videos of films or year-specific events) and/or where the year is important metadata such as videos extensively portraying cities (which look/ed quite different 50 years ago or 50 years in the future). If there are, please add this as info. The criteria may be less relevant to items in subcategories. - Is there some script/bot that automatically adds years cats to videos depending on the year in the Date field of the file description?
This is tied to the question above – whether or not there is or should be criteria for which files should be in these cats (however, there could also be a subcategory that contain less notable/relevant files from a given year). I don't see why people waste their time manually categorizing files by year when this info is already there in the date field. A few files have false date set but they'd either also be miscategorized when handled manually or could rather be identified later on – they're the exception (however an idea would be to have the bot/script not move them into the cat directly but only proposing the category so they can be quickly reviewed/confirmed in a one-second-per-categorization-process).