Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > So an interface I had that was really pleasing was that I asked the > database to find a random subset of the results, which it could do > quickly, (or I used the whole results if the initial query contained > them) and I found the set of categories which maximally bisected the > result and presented the list with a set of +/- buttons. > > I.e. you search for Animal and you'd get: > Mammal[+/-] Reptile[+/-] Kittens[+/-] Taken with Canon Camera[+/-] Human[+/-] > > based on the how close to 50% of the results have the suggested category. > > It's not exactly a 'related category', but I thought it was very useful.
Wow! And this was at some point live, directly on the Commons category pages?! Has the whole thing been scrapped since, or is there some way to still try it out, e.g. by installing some custom JavaScript? -- Ilmari Karonen _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
