Re: [Wikitech-l] How bad is a category with 21, 008 pages for the servers?

2006/8/23, Neil Harris <neil(a)tonal.clara.co.uk>uk>: Doing a search of cycles, I found that there must be thousands if not more of them on the English Wikipedia. Yours differ somewhat from the average by being short. I chose a category more or less at random (it was [[Category:Waves]]). It had 999 supercategories, and was part of 6 cycles (counting only elementary cycles): Waves -> Sound -> Music -> Music events -> Music competitions -> Eurovision Song Contest -> Eurovision host cities -> Rome -> History of Rome -> Ancient Rome -> Ancient Roman religion -> Ancient Roman Christianity -> Patristics -> Heresy -> Heretics -> People executed for heresy -> Jesus -> Doctrines and teachings of Jesus -> Nonviolence -> Peace -> Social justice -> Community organizing -> Protests -> History of social movements -> Critical theory -> Cultural studies -> Museology -> Anthropology -> Linguistics -> Proper nouns -> Organizations -> Educational organizations -> Schools -> School subjects -> Biology -> Tree of life -> Eukaryotes -> Animals -> Chordates -> Tetrapods -> Synapsids -> Therapsids -> Theriodonts -> Mammals -> Primates -> Apes -> Humans -> Technology -> Systems -> Dynamical systems -> Waves Waves -> Sound -> Music -> Music events -> Music competitions -> Eurovision Song Contest -> Eurovision host cities -> Rome -> History of Rome -> Ancient Rome -> Ancient Roman religion -> Ancient Roman Christianity -> Patristics -> Heresy -> Heretics -> People executed for heresy -> Jesus -> Doctrines and teachings of Jesus -> Nonviolence -> Peace -> Social justice -> Community organizing -> Protests -> History of social movements -> Critical theory -> Cultural studies -> Museology -> Anthropology -> Linguistics -> Proper nouns -> Organizations -> Educational organizations -> Schools -> School subjects -> Biology -> Tree of life -> Eukaryotes -> Animals -> Chordates -> Tetrapods -> Synapsids -> Therapsids -> Theriodonts -> Mammals -> Primates -> Apes -> Humans -> Technology -> Applied sciences -> Engineering -> Mechanics -> Dynamical systems -> Waves Waves -> Sound -> Music -> Music events -> Music competitions -> Eurovision Song Contest -> Eurovision host cities -> Rome -> History of Rome -> Ancient Rome -> Ancient Roman religion -> Ancient Roman Christianity -> Patristics -> Heresy -> Heretics -> People executed for heresy -> Jesus -> Doctrines and teachings of Jesus -> Nonviolence -> Peace -> Social justice -> Community organizing -> Protests -> History of social movements -> Critical theory -> Cultural studies -> Museology -> Anthropology -> Linguistics -> Proper nouns -> Organizations -> Educational organizations -> Schools -> School subjects -> Biology -> Tree of life -> Eukaryotes -> Animals -> Chordates -> Tetrapods -> Synapsids -> Therapsids -> Theriodonts -> Mammals -> Primates -> Apes -> Humans -> Technology -> Applied sciences -> Education -> Education by subject -> Physics education -> Introductory physics -> Waves Waves -> Sound -> Music -> Music events -> Music competitions -> Eurovision Song Contest -> Eurovision host cities -> Rome -> History of Rome -> Ancient Rome -> Ancient Roman religion -> Ancient Roman Christianity -> Patristics -> Heresy -> Heretics -> People executed for heresy -> Jesus -> Doctrines and teachings of Jesus -> Nonviolence -> Peace -> Social justice -> Community organizing -> Protests -> History of social movements -> Critical theory -> Cultural studies -> Museology -> Anthropology -> Linguistics -> Proper nouns -> Organizations -> Educational organizations -> Schools -> School subjects -> Biology -> Tree of life -> Eukaryotes -> Animals -> Chordates -> Tetrapods -> Synapsids -> Therapsids -> Theriodonts -> Mammals -> Primates -> Apes -> Humans -> Technology -> Applied sciences -> Education -> Academia -> Academic disciplines -> Mathematics -> Dynamical systems -> Waves Waves -> Sound -> Music -> Music events -> Music competitions -> Eurovision Song Contest -> Eurovision host cities -> Rome -> History of Rome -> Ancient Rome -> Ancient Roman religion -> Ancient Roman Christianity -> Patristics -> Heresy -> Heretics -> People executed for heresy -> Jesus -> Doctrines and teachings of Jesus -> Nonviolence -> Peace -> Social justice -> Community organizing -> Protests -> History of social movements -> Critical theory -> Cultural studies -> Museology -> Anthropology -> Linguistics -> Proper nouns -> Organizations -> Educational organizations -> Schools -> School subjects -> Biology -> Tree of life -> Eukaryotes -> Animals -> Chordates -> Tetrapods -> Synapsids -> Therapsids -> Theriodonts -> Mammals -> Primates -> Apes -> Humans -> Technology -> Applied sciences -> Education -> Academia -> Academic disciplines -> Mathematics -> Differential equations -> Waves Waves -> Sound -> Music -> Music events -> Music competitions -> Eurovision Song Contest -> Eurovision host cities -> Rome -> History of Rome -> Ancient Rome -> Ancient Roman religion -> Ancient Roman Christianity -> Patristics -> Heresy -> Heretics -> People executed for heresy -> Jesus -> Doctrines and teachings of Jesus -> Nonviolence -> Peace -> Social justice -> Community organizing -> Protests -> History of social movements -> Critical theory -> Cultural studies -> Museology -> Anthropology -> Linguistics -> Proper nouns -> Organizations -> Educational organizations -> Schools -> School subjects -> Biology -> Tree of life -> Eukaryotes -> Animals -> Chordates -> Tetrapods -> Synapsids -> Therapsids -> Theriodonts -> Mammals -> Primates -> Apes -> Humans -> Technology -> Applied sciences -> Education -> Academia -> Academic disciplines -> Mathematics -> Equations -> Differential equations -> Waves Interestingly, checking out your examples, I found none of them (I checked London, Russia and Universe, with 1060, 1013 and 1001 supercategories) is currently part of a loop. For Jesus on the other hand, there are 39 different cycles, which however all start with: Jesus -> Doctrines and teachings of Jesus -> Nonviolence -> Peace -> Social justice -> Community organizing -> Protests -> History of social movements -> Critical theory -> Cultural studies -- Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels