On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:54:27 -0400, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
That brings up another, longer term, to-do for categories: they should be language independent. For instance [[Marie Curie]] is in de: and en: (they happen to have the same title, but even if they don't they are linked via interwiki links). [[Kategorie:Pole]] is linked to [[Category:Polish people]]. So there should be no need to categorize Marie Curie twice (multiply by the actual number of languages which have a Polish people category and an article on Marie Curie).
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
This is pretty simple theoretically. The only real problem is getting the multiple category schemes in sync. Considering your point about how the German categorization scheme differs from the English one, this might be a lot harder in practice than it is in theory.
Right. You _could_ make it work on some categories, say "Women" or "Nobelprize winners".
It cannot possible work for all categories, though, because different languages know different categories. For instance, security and safety is the same word in German: Sicherheit. Thus, [[de:Lifebelt]] is in the German category that is linked to the English category Security.
Numbers are much easier to share. Population of a country. Weight of a molecule.
Personally I don't see the difference between taxonomies and attributes, as described. But I suppose one (taxonomies?) could be described as partitioning (an article can only be in one taxonomy category) whereas attributes can be mixed. Under that definition
I suspect this is impossible. But it's hard to tell if you're not even sure what counts as a taxonomy.
Roger