On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:53:01AM +0100, Neil Harris wrote:
I have some ideas on this:
The problem of finding subject groups is closely related to the problem of indexing.
The problem with the current link structure is that it is much too dense: you can get between articles very easily, as Wikipedia is a very "small world" network. This tends to defeat any attempts at automated indexing. What is needed is a way of making some pages and links more visible than others to automatic indexing systems.
Agreed so far. But instead of having automatic assignments of categories I would suggest to have a small number of perhaps 20 major categories:
- Philosophy - Geography - Biography - Mathematics - History - Physics - Biology - Theology - Mythology - ....
and to have those as checkboxes on the edit-page of the article. An author can easily categorize his article. Non-categorized articles can be spotted by a Special:uncategorized page.
An article can have multiple categories checked, an article on Beethoven would appear in Music as well as in Biography.
Recent Changes might be extended to provide a filter so Larry can look for his Philosophy articles.
Regards,
JeLuF