[WikiEN-l] Re: A first encounter with Categories

[K Forstner]

Anthere,

I'm sorry for any/all misunderstandings. You know, I'm not against Rambots
updating information on obscure American towns, but the bots whose aim it
was to de-link disambiguation pages caused some silly lines on a number of
pages, especially in a linguistic context (which is not that rare) when you
want to point exactly to the fact that a word has several meanings.

Anyway, I'm clearly out of touch with the rest of the discussion. No one
ever reacts to my contributions (you are the exception here), so I seem to
have no idea what Wikipedia discussions are currently all about. I mean I
can't even access it, but everyone seems to know everything about it except
me.

I'll have to wait till Wikipedia is online again to see the status quo on
categorizations.

All the best,

KF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthere" <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:57 AM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: A first encounter with Categories


>
> K Forstner wrote:
> > I'm again intrigued by the discussions here, be it categorizations or a
user
> > I seem to have never come across called 172 (?). I came back from a
weekend
> > a couple of hours ago and since then have been trying to access
Wikipedia --
> > to no avail.
> >
> > As far as categories are concerned, I tried to point out some days ago
that
> > there should be some policy everyone could agree on, but Timwi suggested
we
> > should just go ahead. The result of this approach is being deplored
already.
> >
> > I wonder though if a bot is the right answer.
> >
> > KF
>
>
> Well, I regret that all what people understood of my proposal was the
> final comment on bots. It was not a bot proposal I was suggesting, but a
> team working proposal, something a bit like a wikiproject, in order to
> reduce current anarchy on category organisation.
>
> No one commented on anything, but on this bot issue; so I gather my
> suggestion was not interesting. Never mind :-)