"Jakob" == Jakob jakob.voss@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de writes:
Jakob> Hi, I do not understand what's wrong with the first Jakob> [[Category:...]] approach.
There's nothing wrong with it. It's really damned good. I think the idea is that we're going to change the syntax slightly ([[category=...]] instead of [[category:...]]) and do some different stuff under the hood. See again:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization_with_field-value_pairs
I think that the two syntaxes are pretty much interchangeable. I think if there's any disadvantage, it's that a page like "Wikitravel:Help" couldn't be a category page, if categories have their own namespace.
Jakob> By the way categories are nothing but hierarchical links Jakob> between articles. Semantically there is no big difference Jakob> between dividing an article in subtopics and creating a Jakob> category with a couple of articles in it.
Not true. From a graphical level, part-whole implies a tree structure -- each child article can be part of one and only one parent article. Category-member semantics are more twisted -- articles can be members of multiple categories.
~ESP