From: Murray Woodman Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:46 PM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Narrowing focus
- Murray
| I therefore beieve that a reaosnable case could be made for the | following basic roles: | [[category=x]] type/instance | [[superType=x]] type/subtype | [[related=x]] related | [[whole=x]] part/whole
And of course i forgot one: contains. Thanks for reminding me Toby.
- Toby
| That's why [[List of biology topics]] exist now, of course.
Biology [[contains=Aerobiology]]
My god, this is getting ugly. Please don't take that judgment personally--I've had plenty of flights of baroque fancy when I've engaged in a brainstorming process, and I've been helped when someone reminded me that the goal was to make something that's usable by normal people, not something that's perfect and insanely complex.
One reason this should be obvious is that the idea of needing a "related" category when that is what is already done by having links in a non-hierarchical structure is silly.
Simple is better. Natural is better. Don't try to reinvent language or account for every possibility, because you'll fail.
Instead, look at what already works and identify what the gaps are, and start from that point.