[Wikipedia-l] Categories: An implementation

[Thomas Corell]

Anthere wrote:

> Yes. That is a big problem. But just as it is wrong
> that a non-sysop user has to go begging and waiting
> for the good will of a sysop to put a link on the main
> page (*this* is counter productive), I think it wrong
> that regular users have to go begging a sysop to
> create a category for them. If I want to have a
> category about sustainable agriculture articles, and
> there is no sysop caring about the topic, would I
> really have to spent hours trying to find one
> cooperative enough to make it for me ? I don't think
> so. Again, this is counter productive.
> I predict lists will go on existing if categories are
> sysops restricted only. 

Is it realy necessary to _beg_ a sysop? I think there are enought sysops to 
make such things happen fast.
The problem I have, is mainly to find the requests of the users, but if 
there is a discussion page or faster, the mailing list is used for 
emergency cases, I will find the requests in less than ''hours''.
And as developer of course the time to code as fast as the users invent new 
ideas is a problem -- but for adding a category, including use of some 
brain time*, I need 2 or 3 minutes (slow brain;).

My experiences with sysop's (on germen wiki) go more the other way. The 
users complain that they are to fast ;) But of course, I think it is 
possible for Magnus to implement, that only deletion is restricted.

*) Like CPU time, only its build in ;)
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