On 8/23/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
One major complication not to forget is that our categories are at the *article* level, not at the *topic* or *concept* level. Often one article = one topic, but not always: for example, [[Beamish and Crawford]] is about both a brewery and a beer. [[Controlled Impact Demonstration]] covers the topics of an air safety program, a type of jet fuel, and a specific event.
I don't think that's a problem. *Categories* are still at a concept level, after all, and even if they aren't, hierarchy would still work as expected (just there wouldn't be many available strict supercategories). [[Beamish and Crawford]] would be in both [[Category:Breweries]] and [[Category:Beers]]. Arguably that breaks down the idea of strict super-/subsets, but there's no reason to apply that to articles as a whole if it would make sense to apply it to only part of an article that deals with multiple topics.
On 8/23/06, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
I like [[WordNet]]'s (relatively) simple way of identifying different classes of relationships: even things like (say) [[located-in::Category:Places in Texas]], or [[subset-of::Category:Places in Texas]] would still be easier to read, write and understand than stuff like (for example)
<owl:Class rdf:ID="TexasThings"> owl:equivalentClass owl:Restriction <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="#locatedIn" /> <owl:someValuesFrom rdf:resource="#TexasRegion" /> </owl:Restriction> </owl:equivalentClass> </owl:Class>
We don't even need [[located-in::]] for the main encyclopedia (leaving aside the mythical Wikidata, which is a good idea but still in the indefinite future). We just need three types of relationships: related-to, superset-of, subset-of.
=Category:Humans= :''The main article for this category is [[Human]].''
==Subcategories== All of the following are {{PAGENAME}}.
* People by city * People by company * People by country of residence * People by nationality * People by occupation * People by political orientation * People by race or ethnicity * People by religion * People by status . . .
==Supercategories== All {{PAGENAME}} are each of the following.
* Apes
==Related categories== * Lists of people
==Articles about {{PAGENAME}}== There are no articles about {{PAGENAME}} that are not also about a [[#Subcategories|subcategory]] of {{PAGENAME}}.
==Articles related to {{PAGENAME}}== * Human * Person * People