Propositions on categories

Ferenc Veres lion at netngine.hu
Sun Sep 21 23:30:55 CEST 2008


Will we implement this please?

(Reminder: The main link in the gray category boxes on the bottom of all 
articles would point to the root category instead the flat list.)

Ferenc Veres írta, 2008-09-13 12:04 keltezéssel:
> 
> Minh Ha Duong wrote:
>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:Categories
>>>
>>> would be more useful. (I don't know how difficult is to change that
>>> link, maybe a theme template file must be edited...)
>> You mean this bug:
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461
>>
>> It seems to have been fixed, but the fix described above do not shows up when 
>> I look at
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/index.php?title=Special:Allmessages&ot=php
> 
> 
> Thanks for the research, hehe, good job. :-)
> 
> It does show up on your link:
> 
> 'pagecategories' => 'Categories',
> 'pagecategorieslink' => 'Special:Categories',
> 
> Seeing the SVN diff of the mentioned revision in the bug fix, these are
> the two settings(?) to edit, if we agree. I vote for
> 
> 'pagecategorieslink' => 'Category:Categories',
> 
> same reasons as the mediawiki bug #461 explains:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461
> 
> Comment  #3 From JePe  2006-10-30 14:09:18 UTC
> "On category pages in big wikis it is linking to a page with only the
> first 50 categories from thousands of categories. So most visitors are
> directed to a useless page when they are searching for other categories."
> 
> Regards,
> Ferenc
> 
> 
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