On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Lukasz Bolikowski L.Bolikowski@icm.edu.pl wrote:
Matthew Brown wrote:
IMO, this is another instance where the human usability of something on Wikipedia is being damaged by the drive to make something more compatible with bots.
Not in this case. Personally, I'd simply like to make the ILLs more compatible with the policies that describe what they're for.
Since policy describes practice and not the other way round, I suspect that the policies may need fixing or clarifying.
Also, I'd be nice if the community used the ILLs in more or less consistent manner (which is apparently not the case right now).
By this do you mean the en.wp community, or the community of all projects in all languages? If the latter case, I suspect consistency is not practically possible.
This feels to me essentially the same issue as with the category tree: while some might prefer a strict IS-A relationship for categorization, in practice we have to accept that all that category membership means is some kind of hopefully human-understandable relationship.
-Matt