Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread David Gerard
On 21 June 2011 17:05, MZMcBride wrote: > David Gerard wrote: >> There's a perennial proposal[1] for categories to work like a tag >> system (with efficient Boolean searches) to be incorporated into >> MediaWiki. > If MediaWiki switched to a tags system, we'd lose Commons gems such as > "Categor

Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: > On 21 June 2011 10:50, Rui Correia wrote: >> I edit the WP in English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, German, Spanish ... >> This is happenning in all languages - it is not a WP-E issue. > > Categories work a bit like a hierarchy, a bit like tags. > > There's a perennial pr

Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread Krinkle
Actually, it is probably best posted to mediawiki-l or wikitech-l as it's about using the software not about the Foundation or about the English Wikipedia in particular. 2011/6/21 Tomasz Ganicz > I guess you want to discuss about English Wikipedia category system. > The better place for this is

Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread Fred Bauder
> Hi > > I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing > would/ > should go on the "discuss" pages, but category discuss pages don't > attract > much attention. > > If you consult Categories: Sailors/ Navigators/ Explorers, you will see > that > quite a number of people are l

Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread Andre Engels
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Rui Correia wrote: > I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing would/ > should go on the "discuss" pages, but category discuss pages don't attract > much attention. > > If you consult Categories: Sailors/ Navigators/ Explorers, you will

Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread David Gerard
On 21 June 2011 10:50, Rui Correia wrote: > I edit the WP in English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, German, Spanish ... > This is happenning in all languages - it is not a WP-E issue. Categories work a bit like a hierarchy, a bit like tags. There's a perennial proposal[1] for categories to wo

Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
I guess you want to discuss about English Wikipedia category system. The better place for this is wikiEN-l list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l 2011/6/21 Rui Correia : > Hi > > I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing would/ > should go on the "d

Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread Rui Correia
Dear Huib I edit the WP in English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, German, Spanish ... This is happenning in all languages - it is not a WP-E issue. Regards, Rui 2011/6/21 Huib Laurens > This should be on wikien-l instead of foundation-l I guess, > > 2011/6/21, Rui Correia : > > Hi > > > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread Huib Laurens
This should be on wikien-l instead of foundation-l I guess, 2011/6/21, Rui Correia : > Hi > > I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing would/ > should go on the "discuss" pages, but category discuss pages don't attract > much attention. > > If you consult Categories: Sa

[Foundation-l] Plethora of overlapping Categories

2011-06-21 Thread Rui Correia
Hi I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing would/ should go on the "discuss" pages, but category discuss pages don't attract much attention. If you consult Categories: Sailors/ Navigators/ Explorers, you will see that quite a number of people are listed in these argua