On 18/03/2008, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
That's very similar to the Citizendium method - my hesitance about it is that extensible interfaces can be a problem for us - it's much of what went wrong with categories.
Work is going into category intersections, so that they'll work more like tags - and the present querulously microscopic sub-sub-sub-sub-categories will instead be formed from the intersection of broader tags. This is particularly at the begging and pleading of Commons - tagging looks like a really good way to index and search on media - so the bugs will be worked out there.
- d.