On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In this case, I'm not sure we need an interface
for this on the page
at all. Instead, the page can be seen as a member of a category by
looking at the category page. This is very reasonable for maintenance
categories, where you usually don't need to know that a given article
is tagged for cleanup if you're just reading it: the purpose of the
category is to allow people to systematically go through all articles
in the category, via the category page. Adding a button to show the
hidden categories adds interface clutter and partially reintroduces
the confusion for ordinary readers that the goal of hidden categories
is to remove.
In some cases, furthermore, the reason for hiding categories may be
that there are dozens of them, which repeat information already
contained in displayed categories, and which are therefore useless for
everyone -- see the proposal made a couple of days ago here to use
this to increase the number of "manual category intersections" like
"American artists", and have the visible categories be only atomic
categories like "United States citizens" and "Artists". In this
use
case, any option to display all the categories on the page would just
display a complete mess, and would be useless for anyone.
So I would say that __HIDDENCAT__ should just be hidden for now,
period, no interface to display it. As time progresses and people
start using the feature extensively, if people report that some
additional level of display would be useful, we can discuss that then.
Well, it seems that Tim disagrees with this.