Gallery catalogue

=Gallery catalogue=

Edit note: This is rough temporary page to see if the wiki can be used to help categorise the CFA gallery. The idea is to place gallery images in one or more categories that branch off this page. (The other way to do it would be to use mediawiki categories.) This is to save us having to search through the gallery for "Prior Art", inspiration, advice to others, etc. Feel free to add new categories or add/remove designs to existing categories. Probably the easiest way to get started is to copy an existing category.

A starting point is to grab lists of images that have appeared in various gallery comments. (No point re-inventing the wheel...) Kipling 05:02, 19 August 2009 (PDT)

It's a nice idea to use the wiki to categorize the gallery. But wouldn't it be more straight-forward and user discoverable if the gallery itself offered more categorization than the current modes (title, author, upload date, popularity)? I would be happy to code up whatever is needed. I think that we could appropriate some of the organization used by Flickr. People could organize their designs into albums and also assign tags to each design.

Reply to MVJ: Tags would be great. The reason I started this on the wiki was I wasn't sure what shape this endeavour should take, so I was diving in to see what it looked like. With tags, there is the issue of who gets to tag. If it is just authors, the result is a bunch of old designs that never get tagged. If it is anyone, the result is chaos. One thing that you could implement in the short term is a text search of the gallery - even a design name lookup (wildcard) would be handy, but an all-in-one search of designs, comments, users, etc may be the go. Kipling 05:55, 21 August 2009 (PDT)

AK: Well, now there is a tag engine in the gallery I have translated most of the lists below into tags. Kipling 02:20, 23 September 2009 (PDT)

Image Categories

 * Animals (to do)
 * Art replicas
 * Calligraphy
 * Cities
 * Fractals (classic geometric fractals - to do) >>> tagged "fractal" in tag engine.
 * Landscape
 * Maps
 * People (to do)
 * Raster
 * Optical Illusions
 * Sea, Sky and Space (to do)

Edit note: there are quite a few trees in the gallery (everyone has a go at them) so "trees" might be a very crowded category. How to divide it up though??

Code categories

 * Minimalism (to do)