Nikola Smolenski wrote:
On Sunday 18 July 2004 17:54, Rob Hooft wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Category:Saint/Pope would return all Popes who are
also saints
Category:Pope,Patriarch would return all Popes and Patriarchs
Category:Saint/Pope,Patriarch would return all saints who were Popes or
Patriarchs
I don't see how this can be more than marginally useful unless it also
searches all subcategories to infinite depth (with recursion checks?!).
It would not be so useful with current categories, but I assume that when/if
it is implemented, people would make use of it and not create subcategories
manually. IMO, the finely-tuned categories which are present now came to be
because there is no way to display articles which belong to multiple
categories.
I see what you mean, but with the category system you envision, none of
the categories would be very useful to browse by eye, and that happens
to be a very fruitful way of browsing wikipedia. And all articles would
need to be added to very, very many categories, bringing lots of hard
manual work with it. In any system with subcategories, a search function
MUST also search the tree.
Rob