On 02/05/07, cohesion <cohesion(a)sleepyhead.org> wrote:
I will preface this all with saying I don't take
much part in the
on-wiki category discussions, but here's how I would fix it:
1. Forget any concept of hierarchy (except when obviously useful) It's
never going to be a large scale hierarchy, so don't try.
2. Stop worrying about having too many categories on a particular
article. Maybe every single person *should* be in [[Category:People]]
why not?
What you've done here is basically create a tag system with the
ability to have tags relate to each other. Which is good and funky and
I'd use it too, but... well, we could just create a seperate one
rather than tearing down the existing categories. Duplicate the
category code, change it a bit, implement a new namespace, fiddle
around with the CSS, Bob's your uncle.
That or use semantic mediawiki and say [[died
from::cancer]] in the
article, but no one likes that idea for some reason.
This always struck me as like a dentist complaining no-one ever wants
to replace all their teeth with undecayable plastic ones - it's so
much better! But they all complain about the inconvenience... ;-)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk