I completely agree. I think the main thrust of categories right now is that perhaps they are becomng very quickly fine-grained (Fine grained categories are just more interesting perhaps).
Ideally, it would have best to have only coarse-grained categories at first (using some kind of community process like Anthere described), creating finer-grained ones only later.
I realize that this is hindsight, but I think in the long run something like you propose would be very good and may eventually result in the fine-grained categories being replaced by more convenient coarse-grained ones. It would definitely make searching much more easy, if you could choose from "Ohio" and "museums" rather than having to search a much longer list for "museums of Ohio" or "Ohio museums" or "museums in Ohio" or "museums (Ohio)" etc.
Daniel Mayer said:
--- Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Stan Shebs wrote:
there are a couple of different approaches. One is to create categories for every conjunction of categories - if you
have
"hotels" and "museums" and "Ohio", that means you should have
"hotels
in Ohio" and "museums in Ohio" categories.
I favour this approach. Without it, [[Category:Museums]] would contain *all* museums in the world (millions!), and [[Category:Ohio]] would contain absolutely *everything* about Ohio (cities, museums, exhibitions, operas, theatres, cinemas, railways, bus lines, sightseeing, TV stations, and all sorts of other unrelated things).
That is simply bad database design. A user should be able to select [Museums] WITHIN [Ohio] or just [Museums] or even just [Ohio]. Otherwise different tags will be needed for all possible combinations of museums, sport stadiums, or amusement parks in every single area of the world. It would be much better to have tags for the places and tags for things. Let the user decide what combination of variables he or she wants to select. That will require an advanced search capability to be added to MediaWiki, but I assume that was planned anyway.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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