On Saturday 03 July 2004 11:44, Jens Frank wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 01:16:43AM +0200, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] Multiple categories Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 12:07:09 +0200 From: Nikola Smolenski smolensk@EUnet.yu To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org
I have made a patch which enables display of all articles that belong to multiple categories. Thus, for example, Category:Female/Orthodox/Saint would return all female orthodox saints (that is, all articles which are categorised with at least [[Category:Female]], [[Category:Orthodox]] and [[Category:Saint]]).
There are several category names with a / in some languages:
Well, I submitted the patch before people started categorising massively, if someone took care about it there might be no such categories. Now, it should be decided is a slash in category name really neccesary; if it isn't, then those categories could be renamed and slash used, and if it is, some other token could be suggested.
By the way, I was already thinking about more precise queries and this might just be the place and time to discuss them.
Displaying all but a single category:
Category:Female/-Orthodox/Saint
would return all female saints which are not Orthodox. I hope that there are no categories which start with - .
Displaying articles which are in one of several cathegories:
Category:Female/Catholic,Protestant/Saint
would return all female saints which are either Catholic or Protestant.It would not be possible for comma to have higher priority than slash, but such a need occurs rarely and if such approach is good enough for Google it should be good enough for us. I again hope that there are no categories which have a comma not followed with a space in their names.