[WikiEN-l] Time to finish this userbox war once and for all

Thu Feb 23 14:57:52 UTC 2006

On 2/23/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a very hard time using them for this purpose. Even the Babel
> ones. I was looking for a good German speaker not too long ago. The
> problem is, I needed someone who was 1. fluent in German, 2. fluent in
> English, 3. had a good chance of being online soon.
>
> The Babel boxes were really no help in this -- unless I'm totally out
> of the loop, I don't know of any way to do a JOIN type query in this

Wouldn't it be great if we had tags, rather than categories, and could
do queries on multiple tags at once?

Can someone come up with a decent proposal about this? Apparently lots
of other sites have them...

Having two tags "+living" "+person" makes much more sense than a
"Category:Living people". And similarly for having "+Cuban" "+Pole
vaulter" rather than "Category:Cuban pole vaulters" (especially if the
person is also Chinese, or whatever).

Steve