2008/12/4 Daniel Schwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>> how things are categorized.  As long as category intersections remain
>> vaporware, there's no incentive to change.  A technical fait accompli
>> will bring about change.

> Uhm, yeah.. except that intersection of atomic categories are not vaporware.
> We had proofs of concept for that and the interest was marginal.


It's vaporware until it's usable as a tagging system in practice.


> In any case. If someone would really just shoved it into mw core and enabled
> it on all the wmf sites I'd be happy. I concur that it would make the job
> convincing useres of a less retarded categorization scheme a bit easier.
> As far as Aeriks soapboxing from a few emails back goes: Let's not kid
> ourselves, tag based categorization is standard on commercial sites such as
> stockphotography libraries. We are not exactly inventing this...


This being precisely what Commons has been begging for for a while!


> I'll shut up now, and I really hope that this is the last time we're having
> this discussion... (but boy, you will get an earfull if it isn't ;-) )


The last time will be when there's a feature end-users can use without
going off to the toolserver.


- d.

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