On 2/27/07, Florian Straub flominator@gmx.net wrote:
"Gregory Maxwell" gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:37 PM:
The next step will be to raise awareness. Once more people know about this there will be less opposition to using categories as tags.
I say it again: What about categories without spaces or underscores (one word a category) and article/catscans for the combinations?
"One word" is a little draconian.
For example, achieving "United Nations" by intersecting "United" and "Nations" is probably wrongheaded.
Ideally a category will express one idea.. membership in one group, or relationship to a single collection of things. They should not be precomputed intersections of distinct things such as "Images of overweight men smoking cigars who were US presidents".
If cats express one idea or group then many will be one word, but not all. :)
I also don't think it's wrong to have some categories effectively be precomputed intersections, if they are particularly useful ones or interesting ones... but that shouldn't excuse us from also putting in the more general ones that apply. More data is usually useful.