Hello!
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:48:22 +0200, Magnus Manske wrote:
How about this:
- [[category:Stuff]] shows the link to Category:Stuff like it does on
test.wikipedia.org
- {{category:Stuff}} shows links to all pages *within* Category:Stuff in
some floating box Then we could see where it makes sense to add the {{}} variant, for each case.
The problem is the "we could see", because who would decide that? Look at the Belgian mathematicans mentionend before: While at least many people would probably agree putting all mathematicans with {{}} into the article would make some sense (although that is a rather large list), some Belgian people might feel that *all* important Belgians should be listed via {{}} in the article, too. And boom, a little edit war. Not to mention the possibility of a Belgian-American mathematician who also was an astronomer and a painter. Five plain links via [[]] or five long linklists drowing the article via {{}}?
I really think that there is little reason to make the second option available at all, but a lot not to do it.
BTW, while debating categories is certainly important, we should not ignore the box problem that the Wikipedia is having right now!
Greetings from Cologne,
Reply from Cologne :-)
Then why is there no regular meeting scheduled in Cologne? We can't be the only ones! ;-)
Alex