Talk:Categories
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--Vincent 10:33, 13 December 2006 (EST): To follow-up on the last 'tags' discussion, here are some thoughts:
General comments: - the search engine constrained on namespaces is helpful. - Could be interesting to build a special page to browse the OWW community, meaning to pre-constrain the search on "User" + "Category" namespaces.
Suggested categories on User page:
- Geographical location
- Country
- State/Region
- City
- Institution
- Lab
- Research interest
- Synthetic Biology
- Computational biology
- Lab techniques
- Skills
- Wetlab:
- genetic engineering
- protein engineering
- ...
- Programming:
- C
- Java
- Matlab
- Languages:
- Spanish
- English
- French
- ...
A comprehensive list is hard to define (and it should not be fixed anyway), but it could be useful to define a strategy to organize categories (like it has been done for 'People'), and then, let it grow. SubCategories, in MediaWiki, seem a powerful tool to browse a tree in a given ontology.
