2008/6/10 Angela beesley@gmail.com:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Has this combination of lists and categories been tried anywhere? Has any language of Wikipedia decided on a policy for or against such a combination? What experience exists about advantages and drawbacks?
People say lists are good because you can annotate them. What would be nice would be the ability to annotate categories. Instead of only being able to set the sort order, you could add some text to the article that appeared on the category page itself using, for example, [[category:people|Wikimedia board member|{{defaultsort}}]].
Well, since this is turning into a brain storming of ideas for categorization improvements, let me plug in an idea i brought up recently in en.wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Categorization#Semantic_categori...
I think that it would be very useful and simple to implement, but it's a little hard to explain, so questions are welcome.