On 10/28/2010 6:11 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > I was just talking about this with some other people at the WMF... I > don't fully understand the ramifications of the debate, but it seems > obvious to me that categories as implemented are not useful. > > The debate I see on Commons and elsewhere focuses on trying to fix > Categories, but frankly IMO it would be better to migrate them to some > other systems entirely. At any rate, I don't know that they can be fixed without at least being forked. Right now, categories are being used to serve two purposes, tagging and hierarchical organization. By being pulled in two directions, it's impossible to do either all that well, and sometimes the tensions have other undesirable consequences. For example, categorization awkwardness gets in the way of good management of potentially offensive images.
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