On 01/05/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 5/1/07 5:11 PM, Andrew Gray at shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Categorisation is, however, used by our readers, and we shouldn't break it without a very pressing reason.
Do you, personally, use the current WP categorization system?
As a reader? Hard to say to what degree; I definitely make a great deal of use of it as an editor, but the things you need as an editor are different and it's hard to seperate the two aspects! Most of my "reader" time is looking for specific facets, drilling straight to individual articles, not browsing, so I'm not really the category target audience... I do use it, though, just not as a major navigational method.
I do, however, get to *see* a lot of people using Wikipedia. The categories are effectively used as topic lists - indeed, many people talk of categories *as* lists - in a way which I think bears out my "keep granular" thesis. Open the cat, glance through the list, pick the one that sounds right, go there. It would require a lot more patience to do this for a much broader category.