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: If I understand [[Proposal:CategoryTree]] correctly, any category directly referenced by a wiki is, by definition, a "Topic" (subtopic). Any category directly referenced only by other subcategories, not by any wiki, would be (by definition) a "Main topic". It has nothing to do with how "big" or "important" the topic is in the real world, only with whether or not some wiki is tagged with that category, or whether some other category is tagged with that category. | : If I understand [[Proposal:CategoryTree]] correctly, any category directly referenced by a wiki is, by definition, a "Topic" (subtopic). Any category directly referenced only by other subcategories, not by any wiki, would be (by definition) a "Main topic". It has nothing to do with how "big" or "important" the topic is in the real world, only with whether or not some wiki is tagged with that category, or whether some other category is tagged with that category. | ||
: If occasionally some wiki article is erroneously tagged by a "too general" main topic tag, in those cases that article should be corrected to a "more specific" subtopic instead. | : If occasionally some wiki article is erroneously tagged by a "too general" main topic tag, in those cases that article should be corrected to a "more specific" subtopic instead. | ||
: In particular, in the [[WikiIndex:How do categories work]] diagram, the proposed category tree would have the Arbor wiki tagged with " | : In particular, in the [[WikiIndex:How do categories work]] diagram, the proposed category tree would have the Arbor wiki tagged with "Ann Arbor" category, but not the "Michigan" category or the "Places" category, since the "Ann Arbor" category is already tagged as a subcategory of "Michigan", and "Michigan" is already tagged as a subcategory of "Places". | ||
: So the " | : So the "Ann Arbor" category is a "Topic" (because it is used to tag at least one wiki), but "Michigan" and "Places" are "Main Topic"s ... at least until some wiki messes up our neat hierarchy, such as [[Wikitravel]], a wiki designed to cover all places. | ||
: Because [http://www.communitywiki.org/en/HierarchyConsideredHarmful sometimes hierarchy is considered harmful], I worry that forcing everything into a tree like this may not work. | : Because [http://www.communitywiki.org/en/HierarchyConsideredHarmful sometimes hierarchy is considered harmful], I worry that forcing everything into a tree like this may not work. | ||
: --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 23:32, 4 December 2008 (EST) | : --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 23:32, 4 December 2008 (EST) | ||
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