--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:

Ray-

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Not checkboxes, which would indeed require so many

that they would

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become rigid and/or useless. I would propose

searchable write-in boxes

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where words and/or codes could be entered.

This sounds a lot like my proposed [[Category:Foo]] scheme, only that you want codes instead of words for the categories. My scheme has the advantage that it can be built very easily on top of the existing data structures, with no extra input fields or changes to RC required.

With this scheme, you would have

[[Category:Sex]] [[Category:Sexually explicit]] or [[Category:Religion]] or [[Category:Music]]

For *all* the very good reasons KQ has been summarizing earlier today, I think this type of categorizing is very bad. I understand the need some feel to protect sensible eyes, but I believe this is not the proper way. I think it will introduce POV in an encyclopedia struggling to be NPOV.

As Ed (eh, Ed, where are you ?) would put it, when we write an article, a good way is to write "xx said yyy about zzzz".

With categories, it will be "wikipedianUser says yyy about zzzz".

Plus, I think with filters, many many articles will be more red than blue/grey. Very bad.

and meta-categories:

[[Category:Stub]] or [[Category:Delete]] or [[Category:NPOV dispute]]

each of these category pages would be editable, but always automatically include a sorted list of the pages that link to the category ("what links here"). It would also be nice if a text could be configured for each category that is displayed on pages that are part of it, e.g.

[[Category:Stub]] -> This article is a stub article

This, I agree with.

I can figure a [[Category:Copyright]] -> This article is suspected of copyright violation

Then, when the violation is asserted, and a sysop delete it, it goes automatically in the right temporary database of copyrighted material, to be permanently emptied on the first of each month.

hum...:-)

PS : I "to" to the main list. Where this ever to be implemented, it is likely to interest all wikipedias as well

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