Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Categories/Automatic category suggestion for Commons images

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Automatic category suggestion for Commons images

• Problem: Hell lot of uncategorised / ill-categorised pages
• Who would benefit: Whole Wikimedia community
• Proposed solution: Implement AI to facilitate face recognition, auto-categorisation in commons.
• More comments: This will benefit both wikiproject and decentralisation of AI. Wikipedia is one of the largest repositories of training data right now. If wikipedia open-source the trained JSON (i.e. features-label pair), this will help fast deployment of face-recognition, landmark-recognition, animal-recognition, plant-recognition and object-oriented besides other. This will help Wikipedia strengthen the goal of open-data.
• Phabricator tickets: T192444 T155538 T155848
• Proposer: Capankajsmilyo (talk) 09:55, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Discussion

phab:T192444 is about identifying faces in images on commons. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 15:06, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

• Hi Capankajsmilyo. I think it would be good to rename this wish to reflect the problem we are trying to get fixed here (maybe Automatic category suggestion for Commons images). That way people can understand better what it is and vote it up. -- NKohli (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm okay with both. Capankajsmilyo (talk) 18:50, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

I like the idea. But before starting with heavy image recognition one could already use meta data like title, description, location for suggesting appropriate categories. Technically, i also wonder if it would make sense to build a general service for it so that other programms like different upload tools or Commons Android app could use it. --Arnd (talk) 12:02, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

As a very active Commons categorizer, I would like something like this as it would make our jobs that much easier, at least in sorting by locations. I would add two things that could really grease the skids here, and, I think, wouldn't be difficult to code and implement:

• Use geotagging, where available, to determine where the picture is (putatively, anyway) and make location suggestions based on that (assuming the appropriate subcategory exists).
• If the uploader has assigned the image to a location subcategory, and one exists for another category the uploader has chosen, suggest it.

Daniel Case (talk) 03:45, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Structured data should make this significantly easier to implement. Wait a year or two more. --Izno (talk) 13:42, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

This work is really good and fun if this is possible. (Mostafameraji (talk) 13:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC))

Voting

•  Support Arnd (talk) 18:15, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support SEMMENDINGER (talk) 19:18, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Tom Ja (talk) 19:49, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Meisam (talk) 00:03, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  02:22, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:45, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 05:55, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 09:49, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Tylwyth Eldar (talk) 09:51, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:07, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support FF-11 (talk) 10:18, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Abubiju (talk) 10:35, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Petritap (talk) 11:07, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support РоманСузи (talk) 17:33, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Redactyll (talk) 21:38, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Temp3600 (talk) 05:38, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support NMaia (talk) 10:19, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Juandev (talk) 11:13, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:26, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Coldbolt (talk) 15:13, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Per Arnd comment on image metadata above. — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 17:53, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Gerd Fahrenhorst (talk) 20:39, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Wesalius (talk) 22:06, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support – Meiræ 22:26, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support I love this idea. It will help me find a suitable category quicklier and easier. Reke (talk) 06:51, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support an ingenious proposition LetazWiki2 (talk) 07:13, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Waddie96 (talk) 07:44, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:41, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support StringRay (talk) 15:47, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Emptyfear (talk) 15:51, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Ahecht (TALK
  PAGE) 16:27, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Sadads (talk) 17:49, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Hispalois (talk) 18:49, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support BugWarp (talk) 00:47, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Vadimzer (talk) 17:28, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support BluesyPete (talk) 20:56, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:33, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 00:04, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Liberaler Humanist (talk) 01:16, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Tris T7 (talk) 02:37, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Vulphere 05:10, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support JopkeB (talk) 08:10, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support BMK (talk) 11:03, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Conny (talk) 15:09, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose Missing categories are better then wrong or redundant categories. --GPSLeo (talk) 20:49, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Juntas (talk) 22:28, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose I think a focus on location-tagging is much more useful and less susceptible to error. Downtowngal (talk) 03:52, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Wuselig (talk) 11:42, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support it is a good idea as most of the Uploaders do not know in which category to put their Pictures... Sarbast.T.Hameed (talk) 13:02, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support — AfroThundr ^{(u · t · c)} 01:56, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Maimaid (talk) 09:00, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support YFdyh000 (talk) 16:31, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Per my comment Daniel Case (talk) 18:29, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Nemo 22:41, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support This needs some refactoring of the category system to be non-overlapping. For example, there are often 3 categories "2017", "New York City", "New York City in 2017". The third one should be removed. To remove this, the community needs a way to filter content by multiple categories easily. (In case you need suggestions on the automatic categorization of images, just ping me) MartinThoma (talk) 06:26, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Okki (talk) 18:28, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Dumbassman (talk) 17:53, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Good way to reduce the number of uncategorised images — NickK (talk) 15:46, 30 November 2018 (UTC)