I would recommend someone building a yahoo/dmoz style interface for Wikipedia, using the categories. If we have that interface, people will do the work to make categories work better.
On 12/13/06, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
"For what do you hunger, Lord?" Moneo ventured. "For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?" "You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind." Frank Herbert - "God Emperor of Dune" (p.55)
I have read everything that has been written here, as well as the links detailing Wikipedia's history on the subject. A lot of thought - some excellent ideas. But change can happen only if enough people believe it needs to. I believe the Wiki Category system needs some serious study & re-evaluation. Does anyone else believe it's worth a try?
Marc
From: Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:44:38 -0500 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Categories (was: Hello)
David,
I read it. A crowd can never come to a decision about anything; they can only make enough noise to call attention to the fact that a decision
needs
to be made. At some point, very early in its history, there was no
Wikipedia
crowd. How, and by whom, were the decisions made that evolved into what Wikipedia is now?
Marc
From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:56:09 +0000 To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Categories (was: Hello)
On 13/12/06, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
I am not suggesting that a "small committee" (your term) fix the
problems of
Wikipedia - just one small part of it. And, if flexibility leads to
chaos
then it does more harm than good - and is ultimately destructive.
The trouble is that this trick never works. See [[WP:PRO]] for an explanation.
- d.
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