On 02/05/07, cohesion cohesion@sleepyhead.org wrote:
I will preface this all with saying I don't take much part in the on-wiki category discussions, but here's how I would fix it:
- Forget any concept of hierarchy (except when obviously useful) It's
never going to be a large scale hierarchy, so don't try. 2. Stop worrying about having too many categories on a particular article. Maybe every single person *should* be in [[Category:People]] why not?
What you've done here is basically create a tag system with the ability to have tags relate to each other. Which is good and funky and I'd use it too, but... well, we could just create a seperate one rather than tearing down the existing categories. Duplicate the category code, change it a bit, implement a new namespace, fiddle around with the CSS, Bob's your uncle.
That or use semantic mediawiki and say [[died from::cancer]] in the article, but no one likes that idea for some reason.
This always struck me as like a dentist complaining no-one ever wants to replace all their teeth with undecayable plastic ones - it's so much better! But they all complain about the inconvenience... ;-)