commons-app-documentation
Fuzzy category search
Test data
Sample generation methodology
- Go to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/File
- Try another if not inspiring
- Without looking at anything below the image (just looking at the image and image name), imagine what an average person might type to search for the appropriate category(ies).
- Add a sample below. Include the thumbnail that can be found at the bottom of the Commons page, all the strings you have thought about, and the actual category.
Sample 1
Actual category:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Houses_in_South_Yorkshire
- I would argue that https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Apartment_buildings would apply too.
Guessed categories:
- apartment building
- Method A: 0 actual categories
- Method B: 1 actual category (Apartment_Buildings)
- Residential building
- Method A: 0 actual categories
- Method B: 0 actual categories
- Four-storeys house
- Method A: 0 actual categories
- Method B: 0 actual categories
Sample 2
Actual category:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Power_plants_in_New_Zealand
Guessed categories:
- electricity generation in new zeland
- A: 0
- B: 0
- electricity generation in New Zealand
- A: 0
- B: 0
- New Zeland power plant
- A: 1 - Power plants in New Zealand
- B: 0
- Power plant of New Zealand
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Power plants of New Zealand
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Powerplants of New Zealand
- A: 0
- B: 0
- power plant in New Zealand
- A: 1 - Power plants in New Zealand
- B: 0
- Power plants in New Zealand
- A: 1 - Power plants in New Zealand
- B: 1 - Power plants in New Zealand
- Power plant in New Zealand
- A: 1 - Power plants in New Zealand
- B: 0
- Power plants in New-Zealand
- A: 1 - Power plants in New Zealand
- B: 0
- Pwer plants in New Zeland
- A: 0
- B: 0
Sample 3
Page visited: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swiss_Airbus_A320-214;HB-IJQ@ZRH;08.06.2013_709bs(8991628214).jpg
Actual categories:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Aircraft_of_Swiss_International_Air_Lines (only reasonable one, others probably too specific)
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:HB-IJQ_(aircraft)
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Airbus_A320_of_Swiss_International_Air_Lines_at_Zurich_International_Airport - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2013_at_Zurich_International_Airport
- Category:Airbus aircraft (Swiss International Air Lines) found by Method A
- Category:Airbus A320 (Swiss International Air Lines) found by Method A
Guessed categories:
- Swiss plane
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Swiss airplane
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Swiss airbus
- A: 2 - Category:Airbus aircraft (Swiss International Air Lines), Category:Airbus A320 (Swiss International Air Lines)
- B: 0
- Airbus Swiss
- A: 2 - Category:Airbus aircraft (Swiss International Air Lines), Category:Airbus A320 (Swiss International Air Lines)
- B: 0
- airbus swiss
- A: 2 - Category:Airbus aircraft (Swiss International Air Lines), Category:Airbus A320 (Swiss International Air Lines)
- B: 0
- airbus A320 swiss
- A: 2 - Category:Airbus aircraft (Swiss International Air Lines), Category:Airbus A320 (Swiss International Air Lines)
- B: 0
Sample 4
Searching for YΕichi Masuzoe, a Japanese politician
- masuzoe (says
No categories matching masuzoe found)
Actual category:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yoichi_Masuzoe
Guessed category:
Sample 5
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flowers_at_Tokyo_embassy_after_Paris_Attacks.jpg
Actual category:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Embassy_of_France_in_Tokyo
Guessed categories:
- French embassy in Tokyo
- A: 1 - Category:Embassy of France in Tokyo
- B: 0
- French embassy in Japan
- A: 1 - Category:Embassy of France in Tokyo
- B: 0
- Embassy of France in Tokyo
- A: 1 - Category:Embassy of France in Tokyo
- B: 1 - Category:Embassy of France in Tokyo
- Embassy of France in Japan
- A: 1 - Category:Embassy of France in Tokyo
- B: 0
Sample 6
Page visited: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinawal-Savkheda_road.jpg
Actual category:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Roads_in_Chinawal
Guessed categories:
- Road in India
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Rural roads
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Dirt road in Chinawal
- A: 0
- B: 0
- road of Chinawal-Savkheda
- A: 0
- B: 0
Sample 7
Page visited: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glacial_lake_of_Pe%C3%B1alara.jpg
Actual category:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Panoramics_of_Sierra_de_Guadarrama
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Laguna_Grande_de_Pe%C3%B1alara
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Frozen_lakes_of_Spain
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Snow_in_the_Community_of_Madrid
- Category:Mountain lakes found by Method A and B
Guessed categories:
- Penalara lake
- A: 1 - Category:Laguna Grande de Pe\u00f1alara
- B: 0
- mountain lakes
- A: 1 - Category:Mountain lakes
- B: 1 - Category:Mountain lakes
- mountain lake in winter
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Spanish lakes in winter
- A: 0
- B: 0
Sample 8
Page visited: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baba_Vida_E8.JPG
Actual category:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baba_Vida_Fortress
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baba_Vida_towers
- Category:Fortresses in Bulgaria found by Method A
Guessed categories:
- Baba Vida fortress
- A: 2 - Category:Baba Vida Fortress, Category:Baba Vida towers
- B: 1 - Category:Baba_Vida_Fortress
- Baba Vida architecture
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Old buildings in Bulgaria
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Bulgaria fortresses
- A: 1 - Category:Fortresses in Bulgaria
- B: 0
Sample 9
Page visited: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Warehouse_-geograph.org.uk-_142978.jpg
Actual category:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hitchin
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Warehouses_in_England
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Railway_related_road_vehicles_of_Great_Britain
Guessed categories:
- Rail warehouse
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Rail warehouses in UK
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Victorian rail warehouse
- A: 0
- B: 0
- Network Rail warehouse
- A: 0
- B: 0
Sample 10
Page visited: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacred_Heart_Monument_02.jpg
Actual category:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pila,_Laguna
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Philippine_Cultural_Heritage_Mapping_Project_content
- Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Pi\u0142a found by Method A
- Category:Monuments in the Philippines found by Method A
- Category:Cultural heritage monuments in the Philippines by region found by Method A
Guessed categories: