On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Samuel Wantman <wantman(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
We've been hoping for something much more
user-friendly, such as
check-boxes next to each category listing on a page, and a button that
says something like "find articles with checked categories". Of course
you could have a special page for the more techy users that functions as
Simetrical has laid out above, or that page could be the destination for
displaying the initial intersection results so it can be refined more.
Possible interfaces are discussed at [[Wikipedia:Category intersection]]
(or the shortcut [[WP:CI]]). I can repost here, the relevant non policy
stuff as things develop.
I suggested an interface for the category pages themselves, which I
think is okay -- if you have any improvements, feel free to share.
Quite possibly it could be made less "techy", although I don't see it
as being especially techy or user-unfriendly, myself. You're right
that an additional interface on the article page would be good to
have.
How does other software handle this? It seems to me that universally,
clicking on a tag means "find everything tagged with this", which is
true in MediaWiki too. What other web software supports tag
intersections and what are their interfaces like for that part?