Hello all.

In the german WP, we have massive problems devising a consistent and useful pattern for categorisation. After some trying and discussiong, it seems that the software laks some features that would make categories a truly powerful tool of structuring the WP. So my question is how hard it would be to implement those features. Here are the once I personally (and quite a few others, too) feel are the most important:

* Search over cross-sections of categories, an a sensible syntax for linking to such sections.

* a concept of implicite membership in categories, such that members of a sub-categorie are automatically members of the parent-categorie(s) (transitive covers). For category-display, this should be optional. For cross sections, this should be the default behaviour.

* A disctinction between a categorie being a subcategory, or just belonging to another categorie, just as Articles do.

would it be feasable to put this features into the software? What would be the problems? how soom could we have such features?

For more information about the troubles we are having, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kategorien (german) For some of my thoughts and ideas about this problems, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Duesentrieb/Semantic_Wiki_Web (english).

Thank you very much, Daniel http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Duesentrieb