Magnus Manske wrote:
Filters only work if articles are assigned to categories. Setting aside wether we should use categories in wikipedia itself or only in some sifter project, categories have to be implemented in the software either way. So I hacked a barebone implementation at the test site. A list of current categories can be found at
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Thoughts? Comments? Bullets? ;-)
Magnus
At the moment, a sort of "category" function is being performed by the lists on the en wiki called "List of XXX topics", for various values of XXX. These are just "dumb" pages, with no special software support, maintained by hand.
Your category suggestion, so far, just automates these lists. I agree that a proper category/scoring framework would be great, but it needs to be more general than this. Category membership is a special case of scoring, a much more powerful concept. For example, I'd like to be able to cast a vote for the completeness or authoritativeness of an article.
Two comments: * An old suggestion is magic non-displaying "[[Category:XXX]]" links that could be put in articles to put them in a category. * One nice thing that can be done with the dumb lists is to link to not-yet-created articles, effectively creating category-based to-do lists.
Regards,
Neil