[WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

[Tom Morris]

If only there were some kind of editable data store project being worked on that could store this kind of metadata in a centralised location… <grin>  

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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>


On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 13:07, David Gerard wrote:

> On 26 April 2013 12:15, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com (mailto:carcharothwp at googlemail.com)> wrote:
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> > See also:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_intersection
> > That's an old proposal, but is it becoming more feasible now?
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> As I vaguely recall, the main barrier to treating categories as tags
> in the past was that MySQL was terrible at it and it would have
> crippled performance. (I have no idea if MariaDB is better, but I have
> no reason to think so.) Hence the workaround with sending the
> functionality off to the toolserver. It's really annoying because
> cats-as-tags would be perfect for Commons.