"Tim Starling" <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote in
message news:fpmqa3$hob$1@ger.gmane.org...
David Gerard wrote:
> On 22/02/2008, Mark Clements
<gmane(a)kennel17.co.uk> wrote:
>> "Tim Starling"
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote in
>> message news:fplp2t$3i3$1@ger.gmane.org...
>
>>> Put __HIDDENCAT__ on the category page to hide that category from the
list
>> > at the bottom of the article pages.
This feature is intended to
reduce the
>> > clutter from maintenance categories
like [[Category:Articles with
>> > unsourced statements since December 2007]].
>
>> Wouldn't it be better to use something like __ADMINCAT__ (either as
well, or
>> instead of, the above)? This would indicate
that the category is used
for
>> administering the wiki, rather than for
navigating the content. For
pages
>> with admin categories, a second category box
'Administrative
categories'
>> would be added, which can be
expanded/collapsed (collapsed by default)
so
these categories can still be found and used by
editors.
Something semantic would seem better, yes. Are there other meanings
for which you'd want to hide the category? And should stub categories
be hidden by default?
You can always use a template, if you want semantic annotation. A template
containing __HIDDENCAT__ would make any category that included it a hidden
category.
That wasn't really the point of my original suggestion. The point is that
it would be more useful to separate out the administrative categories (aimed
at editors) from the standard categories (aimed at readers). Both should be
displayed on the page, but separated from each other (with, as I say, the
admin categories initially hidden if JS is enabled).
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)