[Wikipedia-l] Re:WikiIndex (idea)

[Ray Saintonge]

Marc O'Morain wrote:

>Also I would create a category Person. All people in Wikipedia would
>be part of this category. Also I would create Category:Men and
>Category:Women. These would be subcategories of Category:Person. All
>people in Wikipedia would be part of either Category:Men or
>Category:Women. If a user is looking for articles about people, they
>can simply search within Category:Person to find the information that
>they are looking for.
>
>(A page cannot be a member of both Men and Women - For this sake of
>argument please ignore trans genders, transsexuals etc, this is just a
>blackboard example.)
>
Hermaphrodites excepted.

>What happens when a wikipedia user edits the Liam Neeson page and adds
>Category:Women? Should wikipedia search what categories have been
>marked as disjoint (this is computationally expensive operation), and
>not add not allow the edit?
>
>Also, with the category system we could save Categories as virtual
>Categories. For example, consider that a VCategory is a virtual
>category:
>
>VCategory:Irish_Poets would simply be a re-direct to:
>Category:Irish (intersection) Category:Poets
>
>What do other people think?
>  
>
The biggest disadvantage that this proposal carries is that it is so 
logical.

I remember raising something of the sort before categories became a 
reality.  It would certainly save us from developping a lot of one item 
categories.

Ec