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
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?