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… <grin>
-- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 13:07, David Gerard wrote: > On 26 April 2013 12:15, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com > (mailto:carcharot...@googlemail.com)> 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 and it would have > crippled performance. (I have no idea if MariaDB is better, but I have > no reason to think so.) Hence the workaround with sending the > functionality off to the toolserver. It's really annoying because > cats-as-tags would be perfect for Commons. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l