On 4/4/06, Justin Cormack <justin(a)specialbusservice.com> wrote:
To do it well you need to look at the category system
in a whole
subject area. It requires a lot of editing to fix. But its worth
it when its right.
I have an immature little fantasy that "tagging" would be better than
"categorising" our articles. Would it work better in this case?
Brownstone could be +"building material" and +mineral and why not even
+architecture.
We could perhaps define parent tags, that worked like templates. Say,
tagging an article +"German beer" would automatically (and
transparently, that is, visibly) add the tags +German and +beer.
Of course, this would require a major change to MediaWiki and massive
amounts of work to correctly implement, so I'm more than happy to be
convinced that "categories" work better than "tags".
Steve