Hi, I'm DexDor (Dex for short) - (amongst other things) a male Wikipedia editor.
In Wikipedia I mainly wikignome - in particular to improve categorization of articles and making related changes (e.g. fixing WP:REFERS, splitting articles that are on more than one subject, adding links to Wiktionary/Commons etc).
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Category intersection can be used to detect categories that are at an anomalous position in the category structure - e.g. below both Category:Articles and Category:Help (a page can't be both encyclopedic content and a help page so there should be no categories for such pages). I chose 12 high level categories (Articles, Books, Dabs, Essays, Files, Help, Inactive pages, Portals, Redirects, Templates, Users and WikiProjects) - those categories with a letter in brackets shown in the diagram below.
Other categories directly below
Category:Contents (as of July 2016) are
Category:Wikipedia categories,
Category:Featured content,
Category:Glossaries,
Category:Image galleries,
Category:Indexes of topics,
Category:Lists,
Category:Outlines,
Category:Timelines.
There are 66 combinations of any 2 of these 12 categories (Article+Book, Article+Dab, Book+Dab, ...) -
I'm also using category intersection to detect individual pages that are mis-categorized (e.g. talk pages under Category:Articles), but it many cases it's necessary to sort out anomalies in the category structure first.
Hi, I'm DexDor (Dex for short) - (amongst other things) a male Wikipedia editor.
In Wikipedia I mainly wikignome - in particular to improve categorization of articles and making related changes (e.g. fixing WP:REFERS, splitting articles that are on more than one subject, adding links to Wiktionary/Commons etc).
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Category intersection can be used to detect categories that are at an anomalous position in the category structure - e.g. below both Category:Articles and Category:Help (a page can't be both encyclopedic content and a help page so there should be no categories for such pages). I chose 12 high level categories (Articles, Books, Dabs, Essays, Files, Help, Inactive pages, Portals, Redirects, Templates, Users and WikiProjects) - those categories with a letter in brackets shown in the diagram below.
Other categories directly below
Category:Contents (as of July 2016) are
Category:Wikipedia categories,
Category:Featured content,
Category:Glossaries,
Category:Image galleries,
Category:Indexes of topics,
Category:Lists,
Category:Outlines,
Category:Timelines.
There are 66 combinations of any 2 of these 12 categories (Article+Book, Article+Dab, Book+Dab, ...) -
I'm also using category intersection to detect individual pages that are mis-categorized (e.g. talk pages under Category:Articles), but it many cases it's necessary to sort out anomalies in the category structure first.