2006/8/24, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com:
I'm getting the impression you don't like wikis much...;)
Let's just say that I wouldn't hate Wikipedia this much if I wouldn't love it this much. I've been with Wikipedia for over 5 years now, and I'm proud to have been part of it. But that also means that I'm getting much too worked-up each time things don't go as I think they should go. And that's not good - I have broken for quite some money over petty, useless fights about Wikipedia the last few days (I deformed an unused cd rack bent my curtain track beyond repair while discussing with you). I know I should just stop, but I can't. It's too addictive.
Well, I want solutions that work now, not solutions that would work if the code were changed as well as the policies.
Patience, grasshopper...since this is the technical mailing list, why not discuss the code changes that would make all of this pain go away? What would the right solution be?
I don't know. Showing pages in subcategories with the category (preferably such that it can be switched off but is switched on by default) would be a good idea, but I'm afraid it should have been finished not yesterday but one year ago to really work. The possibility to have different 'aspects' and get an intersection would be nice too, but probably would take very little time to become as much of a mess as are categories now.
Imagine that we would want to have the full Wikipedia on one wiki page, and then allow only section editing on the lowest level. That's the kind of mess categories have become.