On 12/3/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
A category can't have annotations, but that doesn't mean they're not useful; some of us like our information in large unadulterated doses :)
I certainly didn't say they're not useful...
Navboxes don't obsolete categories though. Would you have a navbox for "living people"????
...or that they are totally replaceable by navboxes.
Sounds a lot like an "expanded" category/navbox.
Yeah, with the proviso that the categories are usually pretty small.
There are times when a hand-edited, hand-annotated list is the only real way to go (like lists of tallest structures, biggest countries...) Similarly, being able to add articles to categories by editing the *article* not the *category* is an indispensable capability. And for navigational ability and visibility of related articles, nothing beats a navbox. With the tools currently available, we really need all three...
But what would really beat them all would be being able to store semantic information on pages and have navboxes/lists generated dynamically from that. I can't remember whether semanticwiki can do this, but it would certainly be cool to be able to say on the article {{building|500m}} and have that article automatically take place in the relevant list, category and navbox...
Steve