Magnus-
Bug report first: The new "Subcategories" links do not point to the Category: namespace but into the main namespace.
And the child category should have a section called
== Parent categories ==
Unnecessary. They're displayed as "normal" categories of this very page.
Of course! D'oh.
- Similarly, it would be neat if the list of categories would be
structured according to parent child relationships, i.e.
- Biology
** Medicine
- France
** French monarch ...
What about double entries? "Biochemistry" is both in category "Biology" and "Chemistry". Should that appear under both?
Yes, I think it should appear under both. A little redundancy here won't hurt.
- I think the categories should be put under the page subtitle, or at the
bottom of the page, but definitely not next to "printable version".
Trying your first suggestion. Looks OK.
I agree, looks fine to me.
- After I initially proposed the scheme, Brion suggested that it would be
useful to have some way to specify how an article should be sorted in the category list, e.g.
[[Category:Author|King, Stephen]]
*Way* too complicated without a separate database table
I presume you're using the LINKS table. Why not add a LINK_ID to the table and have a separate LINK_AS table that includes the sorting criteria and can be looked up for categories? Updated on page save?
As for separation, let's keep the idea of a meta namespace open -- we can always move this stuff if need be. I envision a scheme where by default, a user sees two edit windows for each page, the big article editor and a small meta editor, but he can decide to disable the meta stuff if he doesn't care about it at all.
Regards,
Erik