[pmwiki-users] Re: category v.s. label

chr at home.se chr at home.se
Wed Mar 16 03:19:54 CST 2005


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:40:47AM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> > This is probably way to late, but I just noticed that what gmail
> > refers to as 'labels' are probably what we call 'category'. Maybe it'd
> > been convenient for us to use 'label' as well? I.e., saying that we
> > place a certain "label" on a page, and that the "label page" will list
> > all pages containing that label...
> 
> I think that category is more descriptive, and the name "category"
> is what has been historically used by other wikis.  But perhaps we
> could describe "[[!XYZ]]" as being a "label markup", and Category.XYZ
> then becomes a list of all pages containing the "[[!XYZ]]" label.
> This might reduce confusion that results from calling "[[!XYZ]]"
> the "category" markup.

Let's just call [[!XYZ]] for the "category label" :-)

/Christian

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