On 2013-05-09 4:13 PM, "James Forrester" jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 9 May 2013 12:07, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Nobody has ever been able to explain to me the technical difference
between
tag and category. (Other than being able to query intersections, which
is
wanted for cats anyhow)
The theory is that tags are non-hierarchical, casually-applied and well-supported in software (from intersections to more). You can see how people feel what we have is somewhat different from this world vision. :-)
J.
James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Categories can be flat if people want them to be. Categories can be casual if people want them to be (guess the red link discourages but that's trivial to change)
People seem to want lots of things. When it comes to the tag camp, other than non-crappy category intersection, we seem to have the things people want, which confuses me why people are asking for them.
-bawolff