David Goodman wrote:
I think most people would agree that the category
system is
cumbersome, but it replaced to earlier systems of classification that
were even worse. I'm a librarian, and Im going to answer on the page
mentioned. In my opinion, summarizing, no commonly used existing
universal classification scheme is suitable for WP, and developing a
new one is an inordinate amount of work. Rewriting the database to
adapt to one will be even harder. Perhaps the best approach is simply
a better search engine. ~~~~
I think that I raised both the better search engine, and an organized
category scheme back before categories were implemented. Neither
happened, and the results have been predictable.
I don't think that such a thing as a perfect classification scheme
exists, but we _can_ do better than we have now.
Ec