2008/12/4 Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> With a JS hack I had my tool integrated to the
site. The AJAX calls
> went to the toolserver, but as far as the users could see it was
> running on the site. No one cared: It didn't produce useful results
> because of how categories are used, and when I suggested changing
> people just waved their arms at me "just make it walk the tree".
What was the interface like (how
noticeable/obtrusive), how long was
it up, and why did it get removed? You're certainly going to need a
critical mass of people who know about it and use it before there will
be any effect.
Evidently at least two of us who were drooling for this feature failed
to become aware of it ...
And enabling it on all wikis at once would likely
help, too: if Germans get used to using it on dewiki and find it
useful, they'll be more likely to push for it to be made useful on
Commons.
oooooooooh. How to hack the Wikimedia social structure.
(mind you, I'll believe it's a conclusive solution when flagged revs hit en:wp.)
In the end, all of these objections are really
irrelevant to the
technical issues here. The fact of the matter is that category
intersection is widely supported in other major software products (in
the form of tag intersection), it's something that a lot of people
want, and so it would be good if it were in the core software. How
fully various specific communities would want to use it is up to them
-- that some communities might never choose to use a particular
feature doesn't mean that it shouldn't be developed (cf. FlaggedRevs,
etc.).
Indeed.
Greg, can your thingummy please be switched on again and publicised as
such on commons-l, if that's not impossible?
- d.