Categories for WikiProject participants. I also wouldn't be able to do
this:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=…
I used to be able to make that list with two categories, but the AIM
user category was deleted under the myspace argument as well, even
though it was impractical to actually use such a category for social
networking (if people want to find "random" people to chat with,
there's a lot easier ways, plus not a single example of it ever being
used in that way). But even with one category and using a template in
place of another category, it still works.
Eventually we'll have the ability to cross-search categories within
MediaWiki itself.
User categories are normally not problematic, and it would be very
much over-kill to remove the feature from the user namespace. The pros
of being able to use categories greatly outweigh the cons.
--Ned Scott
On Dec 28, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 29/12/2007, Ned Scott <ned(a)nedscott.com>
wrote:
No office, but that is a horrible idea. I've
always favored
categorization of things like WikiProjects over list pages, and it
would make a lot of things needlessly more complicated. There's a
reason we have categories. Besides, once we are able to do cross-
category matching, such categories will be even more useful.
My proposal (which has no chance of being implemented) would be to
disable categories only in user pages and user talk. Wikiprojects,
articles, talk pages and the like would not be affected.
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