On 04/05/07, Delirium <delirium(a)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&lan…
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