Certain sections have categories, including (but (not?) limited to?): Tutorials, Code Catacombs, and Categorized Questions and Answers. Wouldn't it be cool if they all shared a common set of categories? If they did, then an enhanced synergy among these sections becomes an intriguing possibility.
Update
Take a look at the categories which currently exist in those three sections:
Code | CatQA | Tut |
Audio | Arrays | CGI Programming |
CGI Programming | CGI Programming | Databases |
Chatterbox Clients | Data Formatting | Files and Directories |
Cryptography | Data Structures | Functions, Subroutines, and Variables |
Database Programming | Getting Started | |
FTP | Dates and Times | Miscellaneous |
Fun | Debugging | Network Programming |
GUI Programming | Directories | Object Oriented Perl |
HTML | Files | Perl Idioms |
Miscellaneous | GUI Programming | PerlMonks |
Networking | Hashes | Regular Expressions |
NT Admin | HTTP and FTP Clients | Specific CPAN Modules |
PerlMonks | Input and Output | Tips, Performance, and Troubleshooting |
Text Processing | Mail and News | Writing, Installing, and Using Modules |
Utility | Math | |
Web | Network Programming | |
Win32 | Numbers | |
Object-Oriented Programming | ||
Programs And Processes | ||
References | ||
Regular Expressions | ||
Sorting | ||
Strings | ||
Subroutines | ||
Testing |
There's something about this discrepancy that I find inelegant. Wouldn't it be nice if we could sync up the set of categories in each section, and keep them in sync going forward?
Update2:
I'm thinking it would be nice to have a category-centric view which cuts across the sections — or rather, ties them together. For example, if someone is interested in CGI Programming, they know where to go for tutorials, for FAQs, and for code samples/solutions.
I guess, when you come right down to it, the sections, as they're presented, are table-centric, which is to say, low level, but not necessarily natural from a user's perspective. Imagine a site doc with an index with entries like so:
Fortunately, what I'm proposing doesn't involve any site code changes. Just some coordinated efforts among the Pedagogues (for Tutorials), Janitors (for Code), and QandAEditors.
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Re: Uniform set of categories for all sections that have them?
by zentara (Archbishop) on Mar 20, 2006 at 12:36 UTC | |
Re: Uniform set of categories for all sections that have them?
by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Mar 20, 2006 at 16:34 UTC | |
by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 20, 2006 at 17:18 UTC | |
Re: Uniform set of categories for all sections that have them?
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Mar 20, 2006 at 10:36 UTC |