On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Magnus Manske<[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Looks good. Trouble is that the category system in place at the moment duplicates things a lot. To get the English WW1 historians, I had to intersect: *English historians *World War I historians To get: A. J. P. Taylor John Keegan Martin Gilbert But if I want European historians, that's not possible unless you know the country categories you want and unify them. And I can think of other searches that are not possible because of the way the categories are set up at the moment. But that beta V 2.0 of catscan does look really good! :-) Is there a summary of what's changed? One thing: when selecting depth, sometimes you want one category to be 0 depth, but the other category to be a different depth. Is that not possible? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
