On 02/03/2008, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What kind of use cases do you imagine for category
intersection? I
suspect that as soon as you open the door to intersections ("hey
everyone you can find all the articles that are both 1895 deaths and
poets!") then people will want arbitrary numbers of intersections
("hmm, '1895 deaths, poets and unreferenced' didn't work"). Maybe
it
would be possible, along the lines you suggest, to allow greater
numbers of intersections in some time-restricted way ("You requested a
4-level intersection less than a minute ago. Please wait and try
again.")
This is something that isn't going to
(a) solve the problem of subcategories of subcategories
(b) work as a tagging system on Commons.
Is it not feasible, for example, to perform all
intersections on a
different machine or something? I seem to recall someone was operating
a 3rd party category intersection site...?
If using a different machine means we can have intersections of 20
categories - or, if you like, of 20 tags - then that would be a
feature that would be useful for the purpose of the request.
- d.