[WikiEN-l] CATEGORIES!!!!!!

[David Gerard]

On 10/04/07, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd say tags are not an accurate (or desirable) way to describe the
> category feature. Categories are much more like traditional taxonomy
> -- they are a controlled vocabulary with hierarchical relationships.
> Tags are uncontrolled and flat.


No, I'd say that's what the category system on en:wp has *become*.
It's one way to approach categories - a grand hierarchical taxonomy -
but it's not always such a useful one.


- d.