On 6/6/06, Roger Luethi collector@hellgate.ch wrote:
I see two major problems with the status quo:
- multi-concept categories (American child actors) force us to maintain a complex system of subcategories (but they paper over shortcoming in the software). The German WP shows it doesn't have to be this way, but it might be difficult to convince people on WP:en until Mediawiki can create intersections
Convincing people won't just require that intersections can be created by hand, but that the common intersections can be kept easily at hand.
The benefit would be great, though. You could get to "Polish female nobel prize winners" by navigating "People -> Polish people -> Female Polish People -> Polish female nobel prize winners" or "People -> Females -> Polish females -> Polish female nobel prize winners" or any of the other combinations.
- categories with unclear relations that are used for everything