Well, the discussion about the "kind of categories" missed a very important one:
Categories used to group wikipedians by poitical/religious beliefs like [[Category:Muslim Wikipedians]] [[Category:Born-again Christian Wikipedians]] [[Category:Flying Spaghetti Monsterist Wikipedians]] [[Category:Roman Catholic Wikipedians]]
etc which are sometimes used to raise voting blocks.
The emphasis on "this user is/believes foo" is quite different from "this user is interested in foo".
if I recall correctly, categories as the ones I mentiones above are not welcome on wikipedia, but I may be wrong.
Can someone else please give me mroe feedback? Maybe previous discussions, statements by jimbo or arbcom, etc...
Otherwise, I'm depopulating such categories (which over 95% of them are done via userboxes) and removing them afterwards.
On 6/7/06, Drini drini wpdrini@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the discussion about the "kind of categories" missed a very important one:
Categories used to group wikipedians by poitical/religious beliefs like [[Category:Muslim Wikipedians]] [[Category:Born-again Christian Wikipedians]] [[Category:Flying Spaghetti Monsterist Wikipedians]] [[Category:Roman Catholic Wikipedians]]
As far as the other thread goes, I'm happy to leave them out because they only affect user pages, not article pages.
Btw, what's with [[Category:Flying Spaghetti Monsterist Wikipedians]]? Surely everyone knows the correct category is [[Category:Pastafarian Wikipedians]]?
Steve
On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/7/06, Drini drini wpdrini@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the discussion about the "kind of categories" missed a very important one:
Categories used to group wikipedians by poitical/religious beliefs like [[Category:Muslim Wikipedians]] [[Category:Born-again Christian Wikipedians]] [[Category:Flying Spaghetti Monsterist Wikipedians]] [[Category:Roman Catholic Wikipedians]]
As far as the other thread goes, I'm happy to leave them out because they only affect user pages, not article pages.
Btw, what's with [[Category:Flying Spaghetti Monsterist Wikipedians]]? Surely everyone knows the correct category is [[Category:Pastafarian Wikipedians]]?
IMO, all these categories (in particular the ones related to religious or political affiliation) are not a good idea, as these tend to be used for lobbying. I have not problem in users describing the religious or political affiliation in their user pages, but these categories divide and polarize. Not good for community-building.
-- Jossi
On 6/13/06, jf_wikipedia@mac.com jf_wikipedia@mac.com wrote:
On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/7/06, Drini drini wpdrini@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the discussion about the "kind of categories" missed a very important one:
Categories used to group wikipedians by poitical/religious beliefs like [[Category:Muslim Wikipedians]] [[Category:Born-again Christian Wikipedians]] [[Category:Flying Spaghetti Monsterist Wikipedians]] [[Category:Roman Catholic Wikipedians]]
As far as the other thread goes, I'm happy to leave them out because they only affect user pages, not article pages.
Btw, what's with [[Category:Flying Spaghetti Monsterist Wikipedians]]? Surely everyone knows the correct category is [[Category:Pastafarian Wikipedians]]?
IMO, all these categories (in particular the ones related to religious or political affiliation) are not a good idea, as these tend to be used for lobbying. I have not problem in users describing the religious or political affiliation in their user pages, but these categories divide and polarize. Not good for community-building.
-- Jossi
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Perhaps you'll be interested on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CFD#Category:Wikipedians_by_politics_and_all... then