On 8/24/06, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
When the authors write that "category assignments
were introduced
in May 2004 and 78,977 unique categories have come into existence
since then" I cannot help but laugh and remember Larry Sanger's
initial reaction when this was discussed in January 2002,
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-January/018685.html
Heh, nice. Interestingly the original syntax proposed was "{{CATEGORY
A category,Another category}}" - ok, the comma was ugly, but who
talked him out of {{}} and into [[ ]] notation?
The pages describing these features in the Help: and
Wikipedia:
namespaces are confusing these issues all the time. I think we
should aim to separate the issues 1. what do you want to
accomplish, and 2. what technical tools are available at this
Good questions. Just based on observation, we apparently have these needs:
- Automatically producing lists of pages sharing some property, for maintenance
- Browsing related pages
- Structuring pages to make working with large numbers of pages more
tractable (especially for WikiProjects)
What else?
Steve