Jens Frank wrote:
Agreed so far. But instead of having automatic assignments of categories I would suggest to have a small number of perhaps 20 major categories:
That's _wayyy_ too limited. I want to be able to have, say, a category of California-related articles so I can keep track of the pedia effort on my home state; such as this manually tossed-together list:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Topic_index_California
Recent Changes might be extended to provide a filter so Larry can look for his Philosophy articles.
Automatic or semi-automatic maintenance of lists for using the existing "Watch links" function is the main thing needed, as well as a centralized location for them. (Wikipedia:Categories?) Having a magic namespace, ie putting pseudo-links like [[Category:Philosophy]] or [[Category:California]] into articles, is one possible way of sourcing the lists, though I'm not sure it's the ideal way.
It might also be interesting to "combine filters"; ie, show everything linked to from the California list _and_ everything from the Philosophy list (or only those linked to from both...)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)