"Aryeh Gregor" <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like for you to be right. But switching
from the present category system
> to atomic categories is not as straight forward as having a few bots run over
> all existing cats.
Of course, humans would have to manually specify which
new categories
each old one corresponds to, but that's a perfectly doable job for a
small group of volunteers working over the course of months. The bots
would do the much more tedious work of actually replacing them, so
each category could take substantially less than a minute of human
review. The category intersection feature would then get
incrementally more useful as the work progressed.
[...]
Add to that the maintenance costs because you would want to
ensure that if someone who is not aware of the concept of
atomic categories adds a [[Category:Manhattan]] to something
he adds [[Category:New York]], [[Category:East Coast of the
United States]], [[Category:United States]] and the other
gigazillion umbrella categories as well so searches for a
building in a country bordering a water body will still show
results.
Tim