Anthere wrote:
--- Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Suggestion: Limit creating categories to sysops for, say, two month after installing the category system.
The time to set things clear. Yes. That is an option. But the names and types of categories should be decided together.
The decision for the (initial) categories should be made by all wikipedians. Limiting the actual creation to sysops is only to prevent someone from enforcing his POV by just going ahead and implementing it. (Uhh... bad trap ;-)
But imho, no deletion should be possible without an undeletion
Deleting is for test purposes at the moment. No problem turning it off.
But I think there are two things quite different that could be set with your proposition. Better management of lists and filtering. These are conceptually very different.
They are. All I propose is to use the same technical system for making them possible.
A future sifter system (which will come, I have no doubt) will be based on the wikipedia software, and it will have categories and filters as a standard, that I have no doubt. How we use it at wikipedia (completely, not at all, filters but no categories etc.) is another decision.
Magnus