On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:47:56 -0400, Evan Prodromou evan@wikitravel.org wrote:
It would be useful to have metadata about the article; categories are a bad way to implement that.
Yes, I think that sums it up perfectly. There really shouldn't be any debate here -- a category for stubs is a bad idea, but there's still a definite need for useful metadata pages.
If it's category-like functionality that's desired, how hard would it be to duplicate and tweak some of the category code to create a new tool for displaying this metadata? Or would it be simpler to just create a new tool entirely?
-Bill Clark
p.s. Hello, world! I'm a newcomer, a dot-com veteran doing consulting work now and thinking of heading back for a PhD in philosophy next year. I only got my copy of the wikidb loaded and my MediaWiki running yesterday, but once I get the time I'll hopefully be contributing some patches and helping out any other way I can.