On 4/30/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Tracy,
Your point is very well made. The difference I see in our searches is that
you want to exclude a certain set of data, and mine is geared toward
including a certain set of data.
From a point of view of sets, inclusion and exclusion
are essentially
similar (including all of the continents except Africa is the same
as
excluding Africa from the set of continents, after all).
This may very well be a matter of software, which is
an area I know
absolutely nothing about. My solution of including both main & sub
categories in the same Article is based on what I understand about the
process - which is about as elementary as it gets. In fact, I am open to any
solution that meets the needs I cited above.
I think that it would be best served by a change of software. Your
solution would serve your purpose at the cost of mine, while a change
in software to support unions/intersections would serve both of us.
However, I don't know PHP (which I believe is what the mediawiki is
written in), so I am unfortunately unable to do anything about it.
Of course, I am open to other solutions as well--I'm just hesitant to
implement any solutions which reduce existing functionality, as yours
would do. 'First, do no harm' is also important here, I think.
Tracy Poff