Nikola Smolenski wrote:
On Sunday 18 July 2004 17:54, Rob Hooft wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Category:Saint/Pope would return all Popes who are also saints Category:Pope,Patriarch would return all Popes and Patriarchs Category:Saint/Pope,Patriarch would return all saints who were Popes or Patriarchs
I don't see how this can be more than marginally useful unless it also searches all subcategories to infinite depth (with recursion checks?!).
It would not be so useful with current categories, but I assume that when/if it is implemented, people would make use of it and not create subcategories manually. IMO, the finely-tuned categories which are present now came to be because there is no way to display articles which belong to multiple categories.
I see what you mean, but with the category system you envision, none of the categories would be very useful to browse by eye, and that happens to be a very fruitful way of browsing wikipedia. And all articles would need to be added to very, very many categories, bringing lots of hard manual work with it. In any system with subcategories, a search function MUST also search the tree.
Rob