On 4/9/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
What is more likely to happen - and has momentum - is that categories will become more like tags. At this point, expect this vast hierarchy of category trees to get switched sideways.
I think that's largely a good idea and I hope it gets done. Tags are understood by most of the user population, I suspect, since they have already been exposed to them via places such as flickr, del.icio.us and others. They are less structured, of course, but structure requires agreement beyond that which is easy to obtain on enwiki.
If the software got smart (and the technology isn't patented, naturally) something like flickr's 'tag clusters' might be a neat idea as well.
-Matt