No office, but that is a horrible idea. I've always favored categorization of things like WikiProjects over list pages, and it would make a lot of things needlessly more complicated. There's a reason we have categories. Besides, once we are able to do cross- category matching, such categories will be even more useful.
-- Ned Scott
On Dec 28, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
At this stage I'd say there isn't the community will to do something about these things. I think the worst of them tend to die so perhaps by natural selection we'll end up with relatively benign user categories.
My solution would simply be to ask the developers to disable categories in userspace and talkspace. Where aggregation of users is either required for operational purposes (blocked socks and the like) or for skill sharing (languages, education, vocational skills), list pages in project space would do the same job in a much more reliable and trackable way (category membership has no history). But we won't get my solution so that's just a pipe dream.