[Wikipedia-l] Categories: An implementation

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Jun 17 00:41:19 UTC 2003


Erik Moeller wrote:

>Magnus-
>
>>Erik Moeller wrote:
>>
>>>See, because we have to make the wiki principles (reversion, watchlists,
>>>rc, diffs, attribution, protection, deletion, undeletion ...) work for any
>>>solution that is outside the article space, I prefer one that is simply
>>>part of the article space.
>>>
>>You have removed the part of my answer where I talked about undeleting...
>>
>True, because we can always add such functionality later. That's not the  
>point. The point is that we should avoid reinventing the wiki whenever  
>possible.
>
Idon't see the issue as about reinventing wikis.  Becoming the largest 
wiki puts this project into a unique position of confronting scaling 
issues that have been meaningless on a smaller project.

Ec.




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