Evan Prodromou wrote:
So, when I was weeding through the RFEs on SourceForge last week, I noted quite a few having to do with metadata, including:
579758 Consider keyword meta tags 629323 Simple article categorisation system 766213 Provide Standardized Subject Search 839394 Meta ICBM tags when appropriate
I think I must have closed like 5 other RFEs and referred them to #629323. There's lots of people who want category metadata.
Anyways, I wanted to float a design idea for inclusion of metadata in MediaWiki articles. None of this is particularly new, and it seems like most has been suggested at one point or another.
All seems very reasonable; the tags will be invaluable in maintaining indexes like [[list of people]], which is missing thousands of bios that are scattered all over WP now. I thought Magnus or somebody had implemented it already?
Syntaxwise, I like [[meta:name:value]], with a general inclination to create new names that are recognized specially, so I can say [[category:person]] or even [[cat:person]] to be really brief, since nearly all articles will have one or more category tags.
Stan