Wikipedia:Category math feature
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- This proposal is a non-trivial change and may cause disruption. It should also make a request on MediaZilla as a feature request.
This is a proposal advocating the implementation of category math feature to the MediaWiki software on the English Wikipedia. Category math feature allows Wikipedians to list categories by intersection, union and substraction. Certainly, a typical user of Wikipedia would find the intersection of two or more categories to be useful and efficient.
Examples:
- Category:Guyanese actors → Category:Guyanese people & Category:Actors
- Category:Actors by nationality would no longer be needed
- Category:Actors / Category:Actresses → Category:Actor / Category:Male person / Category:Female person
- Category:Child actors by nationality → Category:Child actors / Category:Actors / Category:Male person / Category:Female person / Category:Guyanese people
- Category:Living people & Category:Golfers → Living golfers
A concern would be how it would fit in and affect the performance of the live Wikipedia.
Straw poll
- This is a straw poll. Sign your vote below.
- Support. Categories then need not be so specific, awkwardly long and esoteric, making the organisation so much better. -- Zondor 15:04, 5 February 2006 (UTC)