Last modified: 2006-06-30 17:03:30 UTC
I would like a way to list articles that belong to several specific categories. I believe this would make the wiki a lot more powerful, and suited to take on more complex tasks. Subcategories are nice, but sometimes your categorisation schemes are orthogonal and it doesn't make sense to just pick one to be on top in a hierarchy. But there is still much value in being able to use them togehter. Consider a company intranet that includes these categories: * Person * Project * Department * Department:Admin * Department:Sales * Department:Dev Wouldn't it be great to be able to list all the projects in Sales, or all the persons in Admin, without sacrificing the ability to list either all projects, or all persons, or all pages under Sales, as the subcategory would? The information is already there, only the filter is issing. A special kind of category page might be the simplest way, but the most useful would be a plugin for inling the results o such a query. The idea could be extended to arbitrary boolean expressions of categories, but it's the AND that really adds lots of everyday-useful power in one swoop.
Union and Intersection operators on categories would be very helpful both on WMF projects and, I suspect, for commercial users
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5244 ***