Anthere wrote:
--- Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
Currently, anyone can add and delete categories. I
suggest that this will be
restricted to sysops later, as it will prevent a
"category inflation",
I suggest that we also limit article creation to sysops as well to avoid articles inflation :-)
So funny.
"Category inflation" will be counter-productive. The whole *point* of categories is to group large number of articles into them. If we had 130000 categories for 130000 articles, it would not really do any good, would it?
And how should filtering be done if we have categories "adult", "sex", "sexual content", "sexually explicit", etc. all for the same thing? If we want to make it an option to block "sex stuff", it has to be one option (maybe two at max), not a dozen or more.
And non sysops can quietly go on creating lists as they are currently doing. We don't really need categories anyway. Lists are fine.
Today, someone talked on one of the mailing lists about one of your lists that took five minutes to save and slowed down the whole 'pedia significantly.
Categories are my implementation of the filtering issue, something that would be quite difficult with lists. It could also work to tag images as "GFDL", "public domain" or "fair use". It can also replace the lists. So, if we implement a filtering option anyway, why not use the opportunity?
Magnus