On Monday 19 July 2004 23:01, Timwi wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
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
You are right that most categories would have a lot of articles; but I
don't think that that's not fruitful. If someone needs a list of all
cities featured on WIkipedia, there it is; if someone needs a list of all
cities in Germany, it could be made. With current system, one is fine
with a list of all cities in Germany but there is no way at all of
getting a list of all cities.
This argument is fallacious. You say "if someone needs a list of all
cities in Germany, it could be made", referring to a hypothetical future
feature. Then you say "there is no way at all of getting a list of all
cities", but it is obviously possible for there to future feature for
that too (display a category and all sub-categories).
No it isn't. One of the future features isn't hypothetical, it is made, tested
(by you), found to work, and I don't know what is preventing its inclusion in
the CVS. The other feature is a hypothetical one; it doesn't exist and it is
possible (though unlikely) that it never will.