On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:54:27 -0400, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
That brings up another, longer term, to-do for
categories: they should
be language independent. For instance [[Marie Curie]] is in de: and
en: (they happen to have the same title, but even if they don't they
are linked via interwiki links). [[Kategorie:Pole]] is linked to
[[Category:Polish people]]. So there should be no need to categorize
Marie Curie twice (multiply by the actual number of languages which
have a Polish people category and an article on Marie Curie).
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
This is pretty simple theoretically. The only real
problem is getting
the multiple category schemes in sync. Considering your point about
how the German categorization scheme differs from the English one,
this might be a lot harder in practice than it is in theory.
Right. You _could_ make it work on some categories, say "Women" or
"Nobelprize winners".
It cannot possible work for all categories, though, because different
languages know different categories. For instance, security and safety is
the same word in German: Sicherheit. Thus, [[de:Lifebelt]] is in the German
category that is linked to the English category Security.
Numbers are much easier to share. Population of a country. Weight of a
molecule.
Personally I don't see the difference between
taxonomies and
attributes, as described. But I suppose one (taxonomies?) could be
described as partitioning (an article can only be in one taxonomy
category) whereas attributes can be mixed. Under that definition
I suspect this is impossible. But it's hard to tell if you're not even sure
what counts as a taxonomy.
Roger