On 2013-05-09 4:13 PM, "James Forrester" <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On 9 May 2013 12:07, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)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.
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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