On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Andrew Gray<andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > 2009/8/9 Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com>: > >> So all the biographies of women could be tagged "woman"? That would >> work, but only if the "woman" tag wasn't applied to other things as >> well. Maybe you would have to have "woman" + "biography"? Even then, >> it might not be exact. And then you would have "adult", "boy", "girl", >> "child", "male", "female". >> >> Tags and categories are different. Ideally, you would have both, or a >> clear of idea of what would be "primary" tags (what we call >> categories) and what are descriptive tags. > > This is similar to what de.wp use, I believe: > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman > > [[Kategorie:Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)]] > [[Kategorie:Literatur (Englisch)]] > [[Kategorie:Autor]] > [[Kategorie:Pulitzer-Preisträger]] > [[Kategorie:Journalist]] > [[Kategorie:Person im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg]] > [[Kategorie:US-Amerikaner]] > [[Kategorie:Geboren 1912]] > [[Kategorie:Gestorben 1989]] > [[Kategorie:Frau]] > > Note that in English, we'd consider most of these very high-level > categories, and indeed: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman > > [[Category:1912 births]] > [[Category:1989 deaths]] > [[Category:American Jews]] > [[Category:American military writers]] > [[Category:Historians of the United States]] > [[Category:German-American Jews]] > [[Category:Jewish American historians]] > [[Category:Morgenthau family|Barbara Tuchman]] > [[Category:Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners]] > [[Category:Radcliffe College alumni]] > [[Category:World War I historians]] > > Almost all of those are *much* more specific categories - you wouldn't > get a "Historians of the United States" or "American military writers" > category in German, and you wouldn't get "Authors" or "Women" in > English. > > Though, that said, it's very interesting to note that they each > reflect entirely different aspects. In German, being a writer is > emphasised. In English, the writing is dealt with more by subject > matter (...military writers / ...historians), and the Jewish > background is emphasised as much if not more than the nationality. A > German reader finds out about the Spanish Civil War; an English reader > finds out about Radcliffe.
Very interesting. Particularly that the German Wikipedia uses "Woman" as a category. It looks like my idea isn't so crazy after all. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
