[WikiEN-l] Category intersections would be great :(

Tue Jun 13 21:01:42 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:
> I just noticed that we have [[Category:Digital cameras]] and
> [[Category:SLR cameras]], but no [[Category:Digital SLR cameras]]. How
> incredibly frustrating that the options are:
> 
> - Tag all DSLRs with a new category, leaving the two old ones (redundant)
> - Tag all DSLRs with a new category, replacing the two old ones, and
> putting the new category as a sub category of both SLR cameras and
> Digital cameras (doesn't seem clean)
> - Use CatScan (broken)
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=en&wikifam=.wikipedia.org&basecat=digital+cameras&basedeep=1&mode=cs&tagcat=SLR+cameras&tagdeep=1&go=Scan&userlang=en
> 
> - ???
> 
> Steve

While we're on this topic, Bug 6281 
<http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6281> is an attempt at 
solving a related issue -- intersecting templates -- at Wiktionaries 
that use templates to structure entries.

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