Magnus Manske wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
>Your idea of letting the software interpret [[List
of ...]]
>as in [[List of biology topics]] is interesting,
>although Magnus' category code is much further along.
>Also, [[List of actors]] is a rather different page;
>it's encyclopedic, whereas [[List of biology topics]],
>by listing pages in Wikipedia, is /about/ Wikipedia.
>(By rights, it should be [[Wikipedia:List of biology topics]].)
>So the [[Category:]] plan can replace [[List of biology topics]]
>but should leave [[List of actors]] as it is.
Which in no way hinders us to take one (existing) list
or the other
(e.g., [[List of biology topics]]), and run a bot (once) adding
"[[Category:Biology]]" on all pages listed there. The [[List of biology
topics]] will then be obsolete and can be redirected to
[[Category:Biology]].
Yes, this is the straightforward way to apply your code,
and it's consistent with Cunc's plea that we start with a small change
to the way that people currently use Wikipedia. Your code does this.
My point is that [[List of actors]] isn't quite the same thing.
(Although it's iffy -- a better example might be
[[List of monarchs of Great Britain]], which any encyclopedia should have
among its articles, rather than among its backroom [[Category:]] namespace.)
So no bot should be run on [[List of monarchs of Great Britain]] --
or in any case, only a modified bot that won't create the redirect.
Thus, I must decide that ''merely'' changing the software's
interpretation
of [[List of ...]] pages is insufficient; we should introduce [[Category:]].
Thus your code (or maybe [[Category=]] to avoid overloading the colon)
is the way to go, IMO.
We can complicate it more later if we need to. ^_^
-- Toby