2011/1/5 Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se
Which languages of Wikipedia have best organized category trees? I know the German Wikipedia is different. It is often hard to make interwiki links to its categories, but most of the rest seem to build on quite similar ideas.
I'm fashinated about categorization, but IMHO the trouble can't be solved with an efficient, easy tool for category intersection, If such a tool (something like optimized DynamicPageList ) would exist, the problem could be solved with an "axial" categorization, t.i. some "trees" of categories dealing with only one "topic", where well defined sets of items, selected for many "axes", could be retrieved by intersection. I call those "axial categories" as "catwords", ti an hybrid between categories and keywords.
See (if you can understand it)... here: [[File:Catwords graph.png]] on Commons. Jus a layman, DIY thoght... don't expect a high level work.
But, to run, this approach needs a rule: an item MUST be assigned to anyone of "parent" category in the tree. Just the opposite of current rule: assign any item to the most specific one.
Alex