Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread Charles Matthews
On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder wrote: > > > Obviously we need to quit arguing and change it. Either a man or a woman > mystery writer would be in both a gender category and a genre category, > if we are to have gender categories. > > The German Wikipedia does these things differently, and I o

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread Andrew Gray
On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder wrote: > The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out > of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone > should be removed from the higher category such as American novelist. > Obviously this was not thought th

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread Fred Bauder
"Do not create separate categories for male and female occupants of the same position, such as "Male Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom" vs. "Female Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom"." would seem to cover not creating such categories as women mystery writers. Fred > On 26 April 2013 05:19

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread Carcharoth
On 4/26/13, Andrew Gray wrote: > On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder wrote: >> The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out >> of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone >> should be removed from the higher category such as American novelist

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread David Gerard
On 26 April 2013 12:15, Carcharoth wrote: > See also: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_intersection > That's an old proposal, but is it becoming more feasible now? As I vaguely recall, the main barrier to treating categories as tags in the past was that MySQL was terrible at it

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Morris
If only there were some kind of editable data store project being worked on that could store this kind of metadata in a centralised location… -- Tom Morris On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 13:07, David Gerard wrote: > On 26 April 2013 12:15, Carcharoth (mailto:carcharo

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread Charles Matthews
On 26 April 2013 15:24, Tom Morris wrote: > If only there were some kind of editable data store project being worked > on that could store this kind of metadata in a centralised location… > > Quite a good if cryptic comment about Wikidata. I suppose it is encouraging to think that the system as

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder wrote: >> The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out >> of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone >> should be removed from the higher category such