On 4/4/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
To do it well you need to look at the category system in a whole subject area. It requires a lot of editing to fix. But its worth it when its right.
I have an immature little fantasy that "tagging" would be better than "categorising" our articles. Would it work better in this case? Brownstone could be +"building material" and +mineral and why not even +architecture.
We could perhaps define parent tags, that worked like templates. Say, tagging an article +"German beer" would automatically (and transparently, that is, visibly) add the tags +German and +beer.
Of course, this would require a major change to MediaWiki and massive amounts of work to correctly implement, so I'm more than happy to be convinced that "categories" work better than "tags".
Steve