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.
-- Ned Scott
On Dec 28, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
At this stage I'd say there isn't the
community will to do something
about these things. I think the worst of them tend to die so perhaps
by natural selection we'll end up with relatively benign user
categories.
My solution would simply be to ask the developers to disable
categories in userspace and talkspace. Where aggregation of users is
either required for operational purposes (blocked socks and the like)
or for skill sharing (languages, education, vocational skills), list
pages in project space would do the same job in a much more reliable
and trackable way (category membership has no history). But we won't
get my solution so that's just a pipe dream.