2009/8/9 <wjhon...@aol.com>: > About "Women" on Wikipedia, I think "famous" is probably problematic, like > "list of short women", is too much based on a judgement call. > And a list of all women on wikipedia would be too enormous. > However I would think no one would object to something like Women by > Nationality and then have a sub-cat for each nation. That you'd just have to > all > up everyone in that cat.
The problem being discussed in this thread would be solved by the feature (much-desired by Commons) of turning categories into tags - so that e.g. [[Category:Left-handed dead Jewish lesbian presidents of the United States]] could become a query combining a pile of tags, rather than a ridiculously specific sub-sub-category as we have now. The nice thing is that going from the tiny sub-sub-cats to a query on tags can be done gradually without a lot of disruption. At the moment a test version of this feature worked like a dream in PostgreSQL, but failed miserably in MySQL, 'cos MySQL is shit. Unfortunately, it's also what Wikimedia runs on. People are working on workarounds at various rates. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
