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| + | :You're right, 'Tree' is not strictly accurate. A category can be a sub category of more than one parent category. For example the '[[:Category:Torture|torture category]] is currently a sub category of 'Miscellany', 'War on Terror' and 'Abuse of power', which is itself a sub category of Miscellany !! - Everything works OK but that's what I mean by the category tree being in a mess - It's just grown like Noddy. Not easy to be too disciplined when you're authoring away like mad and faced with selecting an appropriate category :-)). --[[User:Peter|Peter P]] 07:29, 21 March 2012 (UTC) | ||
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| + | == Explanation of where Category Tree is heading == | ||
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| + | I'm continuing to remove more or less all the manually edited categories I come across, but ''not'' because I want to get rid of categories altogether. Instead, I favour their automatic generation from semantic content (see, for example, {{cat|websites}}) - since this gives us the best of both worlds: | ||
| + | #Easy modification and integration with {{SMW}} | ||
| + | #A structure which is quite familiar to most wiki users | ||
| + | [[User:Robin|Robin]] ([[User talk:Robin|talk]]) 04:58, 11 July 2014 (IST) | ||
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Does this have to be a 'tree' - strictly speaking. i.e. Does anything break if a category is a sub-category of more than one other category?
Robin 23:16, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
- You're right, 'Tree' is not strictly accurate. A category can be a sub category of more than one parent category. For example the 'torture category is currently a sub category of 'Miscellany', 'War on Terror' and 'Abuse of power', which is itself a sub category of Miscellany !! - Everything works OK but that's what I mean by the category tree being in a mess - It's just grown like Noddy. Not easy to be too disciplined when you're authoring away like mad and faced with selecting an appropriate category :-)). --Peter P 07:29, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Explanation of where Category Tree is heading
I'm continuing to remove more or less all the manually edited categories I come across, but not because I want to get rid of categories altogether. Instead, I favour their automatic generation from semantic content (see, for example, Category:Websites) - since this gives us the best of both worlds:
- Easy modification and integration with SMW
- A structure which is quite familiar to most wiki users
