On 8/24/06, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know. Showing pages in subcategories with
the category
(preferably such that it can be switched off but is switched on by
default) would be a good idea, but I'm afraid it should have been
finished not yesterday but one year ago to really work. The
possibility to have different 'aspects' and get an intersection would
be nice too, but probably would take very little time to become as
much of a mess as are categories now.
Imagine it were possibly to say, formally (with some special syntax)
"This is a strict taxonomy. Every item in every subcategory is
effectively in this category too." Would this be good? Some
possibilities:
* It would be *possible* to show all those eventual subsubsubcategory
articles on the same page (resolving most of your concerns)
* Hypothetical "random article from category" would be really useful.
* Generate graphical trees, and navigate the tree.
I guess I'm proposing a model where categories overall form a loose,
generally acyclic graph, but with local trees. I wonder what's the
simplest way this could be done? Probably something as simple as a
special tag on the parent category, or maybe a special naming scheme.
I'm liking this idea.
Steve