And no, they won't ever get rid of categories. It's just that the phone variants of the site are very heavily geared towards a specific type of reader, at the expense of editors or other types of users. They have been trying to address this over incremental updates though, such as now showing talk pages.

That doesn't seem correct to me. Different languages require different orthographies because they have different phonetics. Compare the Latin script when used for English to German to Vietnamese to Turkish. Same thing with the Arabic script with Persian and Urdu. When tailored orthographies aren't used, the written representation becomes a poor representation of speech. Though even then it might not have been a perfect fit in the first place, requiring digraphs or diacritics. Or the spoken language can diverge.

    ffmpeg -i foo.mp4 -c:v h264_videotoolbox -b:v 1600k foo_out.mp4

For example, say we have the kanji 訓. For a SKIP-based lookup, you'd see this as 言|川, and you probably know that's 7 and 3 strokes. Whereas with this approach, you could type in the parts, e.g. いう (backspace) to get 言 and かわ to get 川. A lot faster when kanji have many parts or you're not so sure about the stroke counts. Yes, SKIP would be more helpful if you don't know the parts.

Forensic evidence has been and still is systematically abused:

> * a 2002 FBI re-examination of microscopic hair comparisons the agency’s scientists had performed in criminal cases, in which DNA testing revealed that 11 percent of hair samples found to match microscopically actually came from different individuals;

> * a 2004 National Research Council report, commissioned by the FBI, on bullet-lead evidence, which found that there was insufficient research and data to support drawing a definitive connection between two bullets based on compositional similarity of the lead they contain;

> * a 2005 report of an international committee established by the FBI to review the use of latent fingerprint evidence in the case of a terrorist bombing in Spain, in which the committee found that “confirmation bias”—the inclination to confirm a suspicion based on other grounds—contributed to a misidentification and improper detention; and

> * studies reported in 2009 and 2010 on bitemark evidence, which found that current procedures for comparing bitemarks are unable to reliably exclude or include a suspect as a potential biter.

> Beyond these kinds of shortfalls with respect to “reliable methods” in forensic feature-comparison disciplines, reviews have found that expert witnesses have often overstated the probative value of their evidence, going far beyond what the relevant science can justify.

(https://web.archive.org/web/20170120002449/https://www.white... page 16)

Even more:

* Tire and shoe prints: https://www.apmreports.org/story/2016/09/27/questionable-sci...

* Lie detector tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph#Effectiveness

* Burn patterns: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/forensic-tools-wh...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enka

> the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste

In this case, it's making the internet conform to Google's taste. Seems to be an appropriate use of the term, even if in the more recent sense we think of it as displacement of people or local businesses.

There's also a user who has done amazing work [1] with SVG files, but these mainly only work if you view the original file, as MediaWiki generates a static PNG thumbnail for SVG files (silly, but maybe was needed at some point for proper support).

[0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:3D

[1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cmglee/svg

[0]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo

[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer