On 02/03/2008, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Just for clarification, are we still talking
category intersections?
> Or would a separate tagging system, in parallel to categories, be a
> better way?
> * No messing with the existing category system
> * Tagging/untagging without editing (?)
> * No need to alter categories (tree) to fit new tagging scheme (flat),
> preserving categories and not cluttering tagging with "category
> leftovers"
> * Selective seeding of tags with categories
> * Make (technically) sure tags are always "defined", so multiple
> equivalent tags, can use integer IDs internally, etc.
Ugh. Tags and categories are logically identical,
except that tags
traditionally have a little less semantic info attached (no sub-tags).
If a new system is implemented, we want to have a transition from
categories to the new system, not have them coexist redundantly for
all time.
The trick is how to make sure a tagging system actually works reliably
as part of basic MediaWiki the way categories do now. So if that means
re-implementing the category backend so intersections of 10-20
categories is trivial enough that we can do it *all the time*, that's
just fine and satisfies the basic feature request.
So: will it help to think of it not as a new system, but as
re-plumbing the existing category backend?
- d.