As I said on wikitech-l, I implemented The Erik-style categories at the test site.

I recommend starting at http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy for test purposes.

ABOUT USAGE

I expect

• lots of arguments about category schemes
• pragmatic agreement on the most obvious categories
• much useful entry of data according to various schemes
• eventual and wonderful automatic indexes, Bayesian

auto-classification, etc. etc.

Automatic functions will be *way* less efficient (e.g., slow) in the Erik scheme.

If we do this right, we can probably _eventually_ get rid of most of the list articles entirely: ''but'' there is one fly in the ointment with doing things this way: we lose the ability to create links in category lists to non-existing articles. This would be a great pity, as it is one of the most useful ways to create lists of new candidates for articles within a topic.

I vaguely remember a page with requested topics (*not* Most Wanted)...

Magnus

P.S.: As already said on wikitech-l, I'll copy this implementation into the CVS after a few days, *unless* I am told about basic problems with it.