On 06/07/04 at 02:09 PM, "Matthew Trump" <wikipedia(a)decumanus.com> said:
I think the main thrust of categories right now is
that perhaps they are becomng very quickly fine-grained (Fine grained
categories are just more interesting perhaps).
Exactly, and worse, not well documented.
Ideally, it would have best to have only
coarse-grained categories at
first (using some kind of community process like Anthere described),
creating finer-grained ones only later.
Yes, as has been proposed elsewhere, this should be the first task of the bespoke article
validation commitees.
I realize that this is hindsight, but I think in the
long run something
like you propose would be very good and may eventually result in the
fine-grained categories being replaced by more convenient coarse-grained
ones. It would definitely make searching much more easy, if you could
choose from "Ohio" and "museums" rather than having to search a much
longer list for "museums of Ohio" or "Ohio museums" or "museums
in Ohio"
or "museums (Ohio)" etc.
Indeed, at the risk of sounding simplistic, what is the point of fine-grained categories?
If you do a full-text search on "ohio museums OR galeries" or "boston
bruins player" doesn't that serve the purpose? The number of hits is manageable;
how many museums are there in Ohio or hockey players from Boston worth an article
anyway?
V.