[Wikipedia-l] RE: [Wikitech-l] Categories simplified

[The Cunctator]

> From: Magnus Manske on Friday, December 12, 2003 3:59 AM
> To: Wikimedia developers
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories simplified
> 
> Toby Bartels wrote:
> 
> >Your idea of letting the software interpret [[List of ...]]
> >as in [[List of biology topics]] is interesting,
> >although Magnus' category code is much further along.
> >Also, [[List of actors]] is a rather different page;
> >it's encyclopedic, whereas [[List of biology topics]],
> >by listing pages in Wikipedia, is /about/ Wikipedia.
> >(By rights, it should be [[Wikipedia:List of biology topics]].)
> >So the [[Category:]] plan can replace [[List of biology topics]]
> >but should leave [[List of actors]] as it is.
> >
> >
> Which in no way hinders us to take one (existing) list or the other
> (e.g., [[List of biology topics]]), and run a bot (once) adding
> "[[Category:Biology]]" on all pages listed there. The [[List of
biology
> topics]] will then be obsolete and can be redirected to
> [[Category:Biology]].
> 
How does this deal with, say, [[list of sports]] which is not just a
alphabetical list?