Category talk:Wiki language: Difference between revisions

== "Category:Latin" vs "Category:Wiki Latin" ==
(→‎Merge to "Language"?: sounds good - other opinions?)
(== "Category:Latin" vs "Category:Wiki Latin" ==)
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: Seems like a reasonable suggestion to me! [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 21:40, 3 September 2006 (EDT)
: Seems like a reasonable suggestion to me! [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 21:40, 3 September 2006 (EDT)
== "Category:Latin" vs "Category:Wiki Latin" ==
Someone is starting to set up two parallel categories of languages.
* categories like "[[:Category: Wiki Latin]]"
* categories like "[[:Category: Latin]]"
Alas, currently most articles in such categories are miscategorized -- they have one tag when they "should" have the other tag.
Category simplification proposal:
* Add one new category that indicates that our article is about a wiki that discusses some language itself; perhaps [[:Category: linguistic]] or [[:Category: language]].
* Get rid of all the "Category:Wiki Latin" and similar categories; edit pages that use them to use the simpler "Category:Latin" and similar categories.
Advantage: one kind of language category, rather than two, saves time and effort and confusion.
Disadvantage: people looking for a wiki that discusses the Latin language (or discusses some other specific language) must a little more work -- instead of going right to a category that exclusively lists "wiki that discuss the Latin language", they must dig through a long list of wiki in "Category: linguistic" or "Category: language" looking for the wiki that discuss their specific language of interest.
Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages? Are there other advantages/disadvantages that I am missing?
--[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 15:17, 3 February 2009 (EST)