On 8/24/06, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
When the authors write that "category assignments were introduced in May 2004 and 78,977 unique categories have come into existence since then" I cannot help but laugh and remember Larry Sanger's initial reaction when this was discussed in January 2002, http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-January/018685.html
Heh, nice. Interestingly the original syntax proposed was "{{CATEGORY A category,Another category}}" - ok, the comma was ugly, but who talked him out of {{}} and into [[ ]] notation?
The pages describing these features in the Help: and Wikipedia: namespaces are confusing these issues all the time. I think we should aim to separate the issues 1. what do you want to accomplish, and 2. what technical tools are available at this
Good questions. Just based on observation, we apparently have these needs: - Automatically producing lists of pages sharing some property, for maintenance - Browsing related pages - Structuring pages to make working with large numbers of pages more tractable (especially for WikiProjects)
What else?
Steve