[WikiEN-l] Hello

Tue Dec 12 19:14:26 UTC 2006

Sam Korn wrote:
> On 12/12/06, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> I don't understand how it would defeat the purpose of subcats. My goal is to
>> be able to retrieve lists of persons with like characteristics. Unless a
>> person is included in a subcategory, they will not be included in that list.
>> A person who dies from lung cancer, also belongs in the larger list of
>> persons who died from cancer.
>>     
>
> The suggestion is that some kind of tool -- as yet, I believe
> unwritten -- could generate a list of all members of a category and
> its subcategories.  I imagine this would suit your purpose.
>   
Perhaps an option on the category page which allows a choice of "expand" 
upwards (category tree) and/or downwards (articles)?
-kc-