User talk:Kimberly McCollister

Hi all! Feel free to post any questions or comments you have for me here.

Formats etc.
Hi Kim -- the format you suggested is what I have been converting things to. So I agree there. Right down to deleting the blank sections :).

In terms of the ingredients; I had considered removing some of the categories like Water Recipes, and indeed, Danny at one point deleted a bunch of them. We restored the categories because gazillions of redlinks on each recipe seemed to be worse than whatever the SEO effect was. Plus deleting the category doesn't really remove the references to it so we didn't understand what he meant. Anyhow, the wiki has a huge complicated bot-set-up category structure that involved categorizing everything by ingredients. Presumably under the assumption that somebody might say "I have a bunch of green peppers.... what can I make tonight?" The difficulty I found in getting rid of them is drawing the line -- what's an important ingredient in a recipe and what isn't?

Danny had deleted things like Potato Recipes (for example) so I assume those are part of the stats problem; but a recipe for Potatoes au Gratin is pretty clearly a potato recipe. So I guess what I'm saying is, do you want to take off all ingredient categories? Or just the silly ones like Water Recipes?? And how do you propose to draw the line? I would have thought having an Egg Recipes category for things like Eggs Benedict would be useful, but having every recipe that calls for an egg in there isn't... -- Wendy (talk ) 03:08, December 15, 2009 (UTC)


 * Replace all the ingredient categories with semantic properties (ex: . Then people can also search for more specific queries. Add some Semantic Forms on top of that to hide all the possibly confusing code. Oset&bull;c 13:38, December 15, 2009 (UTC)


 * On that note, someone linked me this. If Wikia could install that it would easily make recipes searchable by ingredient, quantity and unit (as the example shows). Oset&bull;c 14:10, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

got your message and it all sounds good to me! cheers — — Game widow 16:07, December 15, 2009 (UTC)