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As far as lists being "out of date".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.