On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Samuel Wantman wantman@earthlink.net wrote:
We've been hoping for something much more user-friendly, such as check-boxes next to each category listing on a page, and a button that says something like "find articles with checked categories". Of course you could have a special page for the more techy users that functions as Simetrical has laid out above, or that page could be the destination for displaying the initial intersection results so it can be refined more. Possible interfaces are discussed at [[Wikipedia:Category intersection]] (or the shortcut [[WP:CI]]). I can repost here, the relevant non policy stuff as things develop.
I suggested an interface for the category pages themselves, which I think is okay -- if you have any improvements, feel free to share. Quite possibly it could be made less "techy", although I don't see it as being especially techy or user-unfriendly, myself. You're right that an additional interface on the article page would be good to have.
How does other software handle this? It seems to me that universally, clicking on a tag means "find everything tagged with this", which is true in MediaWiki too. What other web software supports tag intersections and what are their interfaces like for that part?