On 8/21/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
I wonder why for these purposes templates aren't used. You can then retrieve all pages that have the "tag" via WhatLinksHere.
Maybe I didn't get the memo, but on wikis I contributed to that was done this way instead of using categories :)
Templates aren't really designed for that the way categories are. The syntax is less clear (the function of "{{foo}}" is less obvious than that of [[Category:Foo]], because of the keyword "category"), the "what links here" page is sorted quite randomly to most people's eyes (by date added, not alphabetic order), there aren't category links on the bottom of the page, fewer entries are displayed per page by default, you can't easily browse to a supercategory (which might in some cases by handy even for simple "tags"), and you can't split up large categories into subcategories.
Why would you *want* to use templates instead of categories?