User:Beria/Recategorization

That is a proposal to reorganize all pages (and media) in pages by language subcategories.

I will use the category FR as case in point because that is a big category with almost all "problems" that can be found in the other ones.

FR

Now that category has 9 subcats (with more a few sub-sub cats), 14 medias and 159 pages. My proposal is to transform that category in a main category without absolutely no pages or media in it and only with sub categories. To that, i propose to:

1. Move all media here to Wikimedia Commons. There are no point in duplicate media, and all of it should be in commons in the first place.

2. Move all pages who are translations to category Translations fr (per translation here i mean all translation for pages who will be used in other wikis)

3. Move all pages who are local pages written in french (like translations of meta policies) to Category:Pages in French (to be created) and subcats - if necessary - as per example "Meta policies in French".

4. Detele the category Français (who has the same propose of Translations fr), and transfer all files to this category.

Explanation to that: The categories with the name of the language are from 2008, and the other ones are from 2006. Besides that, the "translations XX" categories are padronized and easier to find. A category with a name of العرب or Русский is impossible to write for people who are not a native speaker.

5. Create the category "Organizations with French as official language" and categorize all Wikimedia chapters in it.

Observation: To avoid RC flood, all recategorization will be made by Lucia Bot. Béria Lima ^msg 13:56, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Comments and opinions

• Comment I've discuss these changes with Beria and I'm okay with it. Please see this page to see the previous request, that I never had time to do. -- Quentinv57 ^(talk) 14:04, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support Beria's proposal makes sense, its just cleaning up the categories. I see no reason to object. Theo10011 15:21, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support, sounds fine to me, the current categorization is a mess - Hoo man (talk) 14:23, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support per all. Makes sense. — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 14:24, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support. No reason not to. Ruy Pugliesi^◥ 15:32, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
•  Support. No issues and makes sense. ^Email Vaibhav ^Talk 11:10, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
• By point.
  1. This shouldn't be a big problem, it's just hard work. :-) I'm not sure there is always a sensible category on Commons, but quite often there will be (as in this case) the category of the chapter to collect presentations and similar files which used to be collected on Meta. I wonder whether we'll be able to actually have a central hub for all such files and start again to share them actively.
  2. Obvious.
  3. Please don't: this system is already a bit weird and few people remember to follow it; changing names after such a long time will only add confusion and the new proposed name is just too long.
  4. Obvious. The argument about codes applies to the previous point as well.
  5. No discussion needed. :-) The categorization will just be as imperfect as it is now. Nemo 16:11, 25 August 2011 (UTC)