The Cunctator wrote:
Please, please do not turn on this feature. Human-inserted metadata is basically unwiki. There are better approaches to dealing with the problem of categorization/computer comprehension of data. The right approaches act like magic.
Would be great to have one of those. But, AFAIK, there's no way to implement a category scheme purely by code. That mean, there *has* to be some interface for humans changing categories around. That can be either some "Add/remove/change category" construct on every page; ugly, and a bitch to write, as one would have to re-implement "old version", delete/undelete, and the like *for the category system alone*. OTOH, we can use the way of language links; while I'd prefer a centralized language link facility (one for all wikipedias), it could work better for the category scheme, as that information stays within that 'pedia.
And since when is editing an article unwiki? :-)
Moreover, this isn't really (only) a discussion for wikitech-l.
The original question was a technical one, IIRC. I also vaguely remember support for that category scheme when I had it running at the test site.
But if we need Yet Another Discussion (TM) on wikipoedia-l about the nature of the category system (I *know* we kinda decided to use one!), so be it.
Magnus