[WikiEN-l] Re: A first encounter with Categories

Sun Jun 6 23:01:44 UTC 2004

As far as the bot thing goes, I meant it in the context of what you
proposed--something can be invoked when there is agreement that
categories should be altered according to some fashion. My comment
before--I think it's very much a good idea, and nearly self-evident,
that categories should ultimately be a group effort in some
semi-organized fashion as you described.

But I suppose right now really the only thing to do is sit back and
let the experiment with categories play out, with all its messiness.
Certainly everything is getting screwed up in a big way with
categories very quickly, but I suppose this is the only way to see
what should be done.

Anthere said:
>
>
> K Forstner wrote:
>> I'm again intrigued by the discussions here, be it categorizations
>> or a user
>> I seem to have never come across called 172 (?). I came back from a
>> weekend
>> a couple of hours ago and since then have been trying to access
>> Wikipedia --
>> to no avail.
>>
>> As far as categories are concerned, I tried to point out some days
>> ago that
>> there should be some policy everyone could agree on, but Timwi
>> suggested we
>> should just go ahead. The result of this approach is being deplored
>> already.
>>
>> I wonder though if a bot is the right answer.
>>
>> KF
>
>
> Well, I regret that all what people understood of my proposal was the
> final comment on bots. It was not a bot proposal I was suggesting,
> but a
> team working proposal, something a bit like a wikiproject, in order
> to
> reduce current anarchy on category organisation.
>
> No one commented on anything, but on this bot issue; so I gather my
> suggestion was not interesting. Never mind :-)
>
>
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