2008/12/4 Tim Landscheidt <tim(a)tim-landscheidt.de>de>:
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.
Which is why we have zillions of obsessive nerdy humans writing the
encyclopedia. Tags are fine, there's nothing wrong intrinsically with
hundreds of tags where appropriate and useful. I suppose presentation
in Monobook will be interesting ...
- d.