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Moin,
On Monday 21 August 2006 18:49, Aerik Sylvan wrote:
Some of the issues around the structure of categories have been both contentious and promising for a long time, 2 years or better... (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_math_feature, and many links to category intersections / category math on meta)
I *still* think categories as tags is one of the most promising applications of a wiki, as opposed to hierarchical categories like dmoz. We currently seem to be doing some of both (the administrative categories are essentially tags,
I wonder why for these purposes templates aren't used. You can then retrieve all pages that have the "tag" via WhatLinksHere.
Maybe I didn't get the memo, but on wikis I contributed to that was done this way instead of using categories :)
All the best,
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