On 04/05/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
For example, there are lots of people from Dresden, so we have a [[Category:People from Dresden]] subcategory of [[Category:People from Saxony]]. But people from small towns in Saxony just go in the main People from Saxony category; there's no [[Category:People from Zörbig]] subcategory with [[Johann Jakob Reiske]] as the sole member.
Not really related to your direct point here, but this reminds me. At present, the category system seems to imply[1] that people from Dresden are also Alpine countries and categories requiring diffusion. It seems to me that we need a mechanism to differentiate between direct inheritance (A is an instance of B) and relatedness (A is within group B but is not an instance of B itself).
I guess this is a roundabout way of saying I don't think this will be worked out until we get Semantic MediaWiki.
[1] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/catgraph/graph.php?wiki=wikipedia&lang...