On Apr 20, 2004, at 08:49, Ray Saintonge wrote:
The features that I consider important remain the same as they have been at other times when this subject has been raised. An article must be capable of accepting multiple categorizations in multiple systems.
A page may be assigned to arbitrarily many categories. Category pages themselves may be assigned to categories, giving rise to a hierarchical categorization system (though right now it's a little awkward to navigate.) Parallel hierarchies shouldn't be a problem.
Plain text categories are essential, but so too should various coding systems. My simple suggestion remains that a category which begins with two capital letters would indicate a code; exactly which code would be indicated by the specific choice of those two letters.
The category names are opaque to the software; it doesn't have any interest in what naming conventions are used. Codes are fine, but they should be sufficiently legible that having a bunch of them appear at the top of an article won't be confusing.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)