On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Yuri Astrakhan
<yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, I am thinking of implementing a
#CATQUERY <query>
magic keyword for the category pages.
When this keyword is present, the category page would execute a query
against the search backend instead of normal category behavior and show
result as if those pages were actually marked with this category.
For example, this would allow Greek Philosophers category page to be
quickly redefined as
a cross-section of greeks & philosophers categories:
#CATQUERY incategory:Greek incategory:Philosopher
Obviously the community will be able to define much more elaborate queries,
including the ordering (will be supported by the new search backend)
In the future this will be possible using Wikidata and queries. My
dream is that categories will to a very large extend go away then and
be replaced with better Wikidata-based tools. I'd _really_ like us not
to introduce more incentives to use categories like this one. Also
it'd be quite a source for confusion to have both.
Cheers
Lydia
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