(2004-01-03) Hierarchy Of Wiki Categories

I came up with a Wiki Hack for a Blue Oxen thread about building a hierarchy of Category values in a Wiki. (Note that I don't think this is a great idea.) You start with the standard Category/BackLinks feature of any WikiEngine. Then:

• make a brittle hierarchy of category names: Category Software, Category SoftwareJava, Category SoftwareJavaEjb, Category Food Java, etc.

• in a given page reference all the category values you want

• modify the Backlinks/Title Search code to (if query startsWith 'Category'?) do a query using 'startsWith' instead of 'Equals' (so if you do a BackLinks from Category Software you get all pages containing Category Software, Category SoftwareJava, etc.)