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.