[Wikipedia-l] Personal categories.

Tue Nov 12 18:28:28 UTC 2002

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>Somebody else had the idea of creating different types of /useful/ categories 
>such as Wikipedians who have knowledge of certain subjects. I think this a 
>great idea that should be integrated with the Wikipedia:Help Desk page along 
>with the Wikipedians page. These types of categories are useful because they 
>further goals of the project.
>
In conjunction with this, I believe it was Larry who wanted some sort of 
article subject classification.  Tying these two ideas together with the 
recent changes page.  Each article could have a few boxes where the 
writer could enter category codes.  The Wikipedians who are interested 
in that category (i.e. potential editors) could enter themselves on the 
category list for that code, or perhaps enter a list of these codes in 
their preferences.  Recent changes could as a default function as it 
does now,  but could optionally provide a categorized list based on one 
or more of the codes in the person's preferences.

Thus if we were to use the Library of Congress letter classifications 
(which has the benefit of being usable without reinventing the wheel) 
all articles concerned with mathematics would receive a "QA" code.  A 
person interested in mathematics could add the "QA" code to his 
preferences, and on request would be able to receive a list of the 
recent changes in articles about mathematics.  Having several boxes 
associated with an article, allows for the fact that some articles may 
be relevant to more than one category.  An article on mathematical 
applications in psychology would have both a "QA" and a "BF" code.

Is this technically feasible?

Eclecticology