on 4/29/07 4:58 PM, Phil Sandifer at Snowspinner(a)gmail.com wrote:
FWIW, I'm unconvinced we do that badly at this. (And I'm actually a
recent convert - playing around with Catfishing has made me suspect
that the categories are better organized than I'd previously assumed)
(.........)
The problem, as I see it, is primarily implementation
- the fact that
categories are attributes of articles, and so every category must
appear on the article. To my mind, categories are most preferable as
replacements for the old "list of X" articles - navigational tools
that work well on their own. But instead they're enormously difficult
to change, requiring editing of hundreds of articles for a large
category.
If categories could be moved to their own, independent existence and
if a decent interface for the article side of things could be devised
we'd have something that is very close to a useful system.
Your chief complaint with the system appears to be the type and number of
Categories that exist. Small wonder! Anyone who can edit can create a new
Category!
My complaint is a little different: Those who would prohibit placing Main
and Sub Categories in the same article.
In any case, as I have said many times before, the problems with the
Category system in WP cannot be addressed with a goal of fixing it until
their is a general agreement that it is, indeed, broken.
Please, I'm trying to swear off this stuff :-)
Marc