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

[Anthere]

Well, errr, don't worry. Things will sort out on time :-)
You are correct that bots may cause problems...

I fear I disagree with you when you say "everyone knows everything about 
it but me". Categories seem a bit anarchic right now (well, last time I 
succeeded to edit was 2 days ago...) and it seems functionalities bits 
were forgotten in software update. No one knows everything. Ever :-)

I'd like to support a comment made previously. It has to do with 
categories and meta tagging.

Proper meta tagging will allow our content to be neatly organised and 
easy to search. Proper meta tagging implies neat categories, which may 
be crossed by other neat categories. Internet is a huge mess of data, 
most of them are very poorly referenced. We'll become a serious 
reference if our content is cleanly tagged, hence searchable with 
complex queries.

[[list of museums in Australia with a chinese flag hanging above the 
entrance door]] is of no use.

Search "[[museum]]" where "[[country]] is 'australia'" and "[[topic]] is 
'China'" is useful.

To be useful, meta-tags must be large rather than very specific. Query 
gives the specificity.




K Forstner wrote:
> 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