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)