On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:53 AM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/8/9 Bod Notbod <[email protected]>:
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> The problem being discussed in this thread would be solved by the
>>> feature (much-desired by Commons) of turning categories into tags - so
>>> that e.g. [[Category:Left-handed dead Jewish lesbian presidents of the
>>> United States]] could become a query combining a pile of tags, rather
>>> than a ridiculously specific sub-sub-category as we have now.
>
>> So would tags replace categories or work alongside?
>
>
> Ideally, they'd work much as cats do now, but you could easily run
> Boolean queries on them without MediaWiki falling over.

http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?categories=1912+births%0D%0AWorld+War+I+historians

Cheers,
Magnus

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