"William Allen Simpson" wrote:
Technical: Anyway, over at Wikipedia:Categories for Deletion, today folks are proposing making a clean demarck between user space categories and "encyclopedic" categories. Seems reasonable to me. Dunno whether it will make some folks happier, but is worth a try.
Surely it's just a tag of some kind, but categories require some software support. Is it possible to add a second group of category space labeled "Wikipedian:"?
For example, "Wikipedian:Politicians" instead of the current
- "Category:Wikipedian politicians", previously known as
- "Category:Wikipedians who have run for public office"
Pointers to code would be appreciated.
Well, everything is possible. But not everything is going to happen. Categories are identified by namespace 14, and functionality is linked to it. Then "Category:" prefix is added to refer to it. This name can be changed, but then you're changing all the names referring to it.
The problem is that you want this duplicated. So it would all be copying and pasting chunks of code, while changing little bits. Not really difficult, but dirty. Category special pages wouldn't work for the new one, neither.
Maybe you could have Wikipedian: working as an alias for Category: but you could see it as Category:Politicians as well as Wikipedian:Politicians
I don't thing that this could be a real solution for this.