Dan,
I'm sure I'm being clueless, but how does having 40K or more blank
rows in the db really hurt anything? Do they take up more space than
I'm thinking they do. I have >20,000 categories in this wiki
http://gowiki.tamu.edu/GO/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
but they almost all have content, so it's a different situation. It
seems like there will be some categories where you, or users may want
to say something on the category page. So modifying the whole
Category system seems like overkill. Also, wouldn't you want to put
a stub on every page like "{{Donate}}"?
; )
Jim
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054
On Jan 28, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
And Jim, as you will notice on
http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/index.php?title=特殊:Categories
each category represents a frequency, and assuming the radio spectrum
from 0 to 1000 MHz has a station every 25 kHz, I would need
1000*1000/25=40000 empty categories, when all along there is nothing
really to say about a frequency(category,ns=14), what matters is what
organization(article,ns=0) uses it, for this otherwise fitting use of
MediaWiki, that you shall here more from me on my puny poster at
Wikimania here in Taiwan 8/2007.
As Einstein would have said, "there are many applications that would
be perfect for MediaWiki, if only one could not bother users about
what should be the contents of otherwise meaningless categories.
Do we put comments on various points of a ruler or tape measure? No.
We want to keep it clean."
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