On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Magnus Manskemagnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:53 AM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/9 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The problem being discussed in this thread would be solved by the feature (much-desired by Commons) of turning categories into tags - so that e.g. [[Category:Left-handed dead Jewish lesbian presidents of the United States]] could become a query combining a pile of tags, rather than a ridiculously specific sub-sub-category as we have now.
So would tags replace categories or work alongside?
Ideally, they'd work much as cats do now, but you could easily run Boolean queries on them without MediaWiki falling over.
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?categories=1912+births%0D%...
Looks good.
Trouble is that the category system in place at the moment duplicates things a lot.
To get the English WW1 historians, I had to intersect:
*English historians *World War I historians
To get:
A. J. P. Taylor John Keegan Martin Gilbert
But if I want European historians, that's not possible unless you know the country categories you want and unify them. And I can think of other searches that are not possible because of the way the categories are set up at the moment.
But that beta V 2.0 of catscan does look really good! :-)
Is there a summary of what's changed?
One thing: when selecting depth, sometimes you want one category to be 0 depth, but the other category to be a different depth. Is that not possible?
Carcharoth