"Aryeh Gregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd like for you to be right. But switching from the present category system >> to atomic categories is not as straight forward as having a few bots run over >> all existing cats.
> Of course, humans would have to manually specify which new categories > each old one corresponds to, but that's a perfectly doable job for a > small group of volunteers working over the course of months. The bots > would do the much more tedious work of actually replacing them, so > each category could take substantially less than a minute of human > review. The category intersection feature would then get > incrementally more useful as the work progressed. > [...] Add to that the maintenance costs because you would want to ensure that if someone who is not aware of the concept of atomic categories adds a [[Category:Manhattan]] to something he adds [[Category:New York]], [[Category:East Coast of the United States]], [[Category:United States]] and the other gigazillion umbrella categories as well so searches for a building in a country bordering a water body will still show results. Tim _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
