Daniel Schwen schreef: >> We had a pretty lengthy discussion about this before the summer, and the >> consensus seemed to be that a fulltext-based approach looked most >> viable. >> > > So how does this take care of deep indexing non-atomic categories? > Err.. what? Please explain what you mean by that. > =>How will this extension be even remotely useful for let's say commons? > Without addressing Commons in particular, having an efficient way to get pages in the intersection of multiple categories would allow wikis to delete a category such as [[Category:Deceased Presidents of the United States]] and replace it by, say, [[Intersection:Deceased Presidents of the United States]], which would list all articles in [[Category:Deceased people]] and [[Category:Presidents of the United States]]. My extension alone doesn't make that possible, but it makes implementing such a feature considerably easier. > This discussion is far from over. The basic problems are _not_ solved. > Would you care to elaborate on what those unsolved problems are? > I'm sure this thread will die out soon. > Half of the participants will again be soothed by the promise of some easy > solution just barely beyond the horizon, while the half that realizes that > said solution _cannot possibly work_ without a radical reform of the category > system will again be too annoyed (I'm getting there already) to continue > discussing. It would be nice if you didn't judge people as naive rightaway.
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