[WikiEN-l] Category destruction

[John Lee]

On 4/30/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> My complaint is a little different: Those who would prohibit placing Main
> and Sub Categories in the same article.


There are very sensible reasons for this - we can't let the main category
grow too crowded to the point that it loses all usefulness, for instance.
What we really need are ways to display the unions and intersections of
categories, which would allow you to create the same effect on an
individual-by-individual basis without disturbing the hierarchical order.
David says work is being done on this, and says mySQL is at fault for the
slowness of the work; I can't say I find the latter surprising. Hopefully
something can be done about this on the software side, because your
particular problem can probably be solved without having to go as far as to
change the culture of categories.

Having said that, it's clear that there are other problems with the status
quo that will require some changes in how our processes work - how we
categorise things. But the simplest place to start is on the software side,
since it's pretty difficult to navigate categories when you can't have
unions and intersections.

Johnleemk