On 9 May 2013 12:07, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nobody has ever been able to explain to me the technical difference between
> tag and category. (Other than being able to query intersections, which is
> wanted for cats anyhow)
>

​The theory is that tags are non-hierarchical, casually-applied​ and
well-supported in software (from intersections to more). You can see how
people feel what we have is somewhat different from this world vision. :-)

​J.​
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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