Anthere wrote:
--- Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)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