[Wikipedia-l] Major new thread: Looking for consensus on content metadata

[Toby Bartels]

Neil Harris wrote in part:

>* category page bodies should also be able to contain category links
>themselves, allowing a directed graph of categories to be created.

This is one of the most important features of Erik's idea
that IMO sets it above the others.

Another is the possibility of category #REDIRECT pages.

>* moving category pages does not really make sense in this simple scheme
>as the names are "hardwired" in the [[Category:XYZ]] links in the
>back-linking articles

But this would work perfectly well with #REDIRECT pages --
we shouldn't have to alter the code for moving pages one bit.

>If we do this right, we can probably _eventually_ get rid of most of the
>list articles entirely: ''but'' there is one fly in the ointment with
>doing things this way: we lose the ability to create links in category
>lists to non-existing articles. This would be a great pity, as it is one
>of the most useful ways to create lists of new candidates for articles
>within a topic.

We can always revive the [[Wikipedia:xxx basic topics]] pages,
which have been replaced (and greatly expanded upon)
by the bastard category pages.


-- Toby