At 02:30 PM 5/31/2004 -0400, Matthew Trump wrote:
As far as lists being "out of date". Well, that's *always* been an issue with lists and will remain so. I don't see that as a problem, really. We all do our best, to keep things synchronized and up-to-date. Certainly categories will suffer that same thing too, since many newe articles will be created without appropriate category tags.
I think that categories will likely be quite helpful for keeping lists up to date, actually. A little while back, for example, I was doing some work on trying to get [[Links to disambiguating pages]] cleaned up; adding disambiguation pages that had been missed, culling out pages that had once upon a time been disambiguating pages but weren't any longer, etc. It was a lot of hard labor and required some custom database searches, and was only possible because disambiguation pages already had a pseudo-category tag in the form of {{msg:disambig}}. Most other lists wouldn't have something like that, so a "what links here" query would have been full of noise.
Since category listings are generated "bottom up", on the other hand, they immediately respond to alterations made out "in the field". If a page gets moved or disambiguated, or its contents change drastically enough to be recategorized, it's immediately updated in the category list. Should be quite handy, IMO.