On Sunday 06 June 2004 13:52, Viajero wrote:
Thanks to various responses to my earlier post on the subject, I have come to appreciate some of the possibilities of Categories, at least in theory. So, this morning I decided to categorize the forty or so articles on writers which I created or to which I made major contributions, having seen several suitable Categories show up in my Watchlist for similar articles. To start with, I wanted to know what categories have already been created for writers and journalists. For example, I saw a category for for "Argentine writers" (the article on Borges I think). Does this mean I should also create a category for Uruguayan, Mexican, and Chilean writers (I wrote up a couple) even though such categories would have one or two entries? However, there doesn't seem to be any comprehensive, hierarchical index of categories. [[Wikipedia:Categorization]] should serve this function, but it is woefully incomplete. [[Category:Main page]] is even worse. So, I turned to
Initially, I imagined that categories would be organized differently and that most articles would belong to several categories instead of a single subcategory. I even wrote a patch which enables displaying of articles that belong to multiple categories, for example, Category:Mexican/Writer would return all articles which are in both Category:Mexican and Category:Writer (this could be streched even further, and you could have, for example, Category:Female/American/Singer/Blonde). But I guess that developers were too busy with installing new version of the software to look at it.