Categories for WikiProject participants. I also wouldn't be able to do this: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=e...
I used to be able to make that list with two categories, but the AIM user category was deleted under the myspace argument as well, even though it was impractical to actually use such a category for social networking (if people want to find "random" people to chat with, there's a lot easier ways, plus not a single example of it ever being used in that way). But even with one category and using a template in place of another category, it still works.
Eventually we'll have the ability to cross-search categories within MediaWiki itself.
User categories are normally not problematic, and it would be very much over-kill to remove the feature from the user namespace. The pros of being able to use categories greatly outweigh the cons.
--Ned Scott
On Dec 28, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 29/12/2007, Ned Scott ned@nedscott.com wrote:
No office, but that is a horrible idea. I've always favored categorization of things like WikiProjects over list pages, and it would make a lot of things needlessly more complicated. There's a reason we have categories. Besides, once we are able to do cross- category matching, such categories will be even more useful.
My proposal (which has no chance of being implemented) would be to disable categories only in user pages and user talk. Wikiprojects, articles, talk pages and the like would not be affected.
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