Re other attempts - have you seen https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/65176/ ?
Beyond that some people have talked about using wikidata stuff instead of categories, but im not sure how seriously. -- Brian On Monday, August 5, 2019, Adam Wight <adam.wi...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Friends, > > As part of an investigation into category aliasing (think “theater > directors” vs. “theater directors"), we’ve identified two potential > technical implementations and I’m hoping to get feedback to help us choose > between the proposals, or change course entirely. > > For a summary of the problem and solutions, please see > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Gendered_Categories > and join the talk page if you wish. > > Some questions on my mind are: > * Will the proposed hard-redirect category behavior break any MediaWiki or > third-party software assumptions about hard redirects or categories? > * Is “non-page” category aliasing really the mountain of tech debt I > imagine it to be? > * Have there been other attempts to solve this problem? > > Kind regards, > Adam > from the Technical Wishes Team at Wikimedia Germany > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
