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

[John Lee]

On 4/10/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Also, tags should come secondary
> > to a better process for handling categories - I think it'd be far more
> > invaluable to support unions and intersections of categories rather than
> to
> > simply have tags for articles.
>
>
> As I understand it, the plan is that categories here will work much
> like tags do elsewhere. Such that whether you call it a "category" or
> a "tag" is irrelevant.
>
> Categorisation on Wikipedia will remain an editorial decision, with
> considerations of NPOV, verifiability and so forth. (And I've just had
> the idea of references for categories pop into my head. Euwww.)


Maybe it's just me, but like Andrew, I find the tags system to be not very
structured and on occasion, confusing. I still think working with the
existing category system would be a better idea - not to mention that it'd
probably be more technically feasible.

Johnleemk