It certainly can be done (and done without need for silverlight) on
smallish categories (to pull numbers out of a hat, things with less than
1000 pages probably would be fine).
I doubt the silverlight control would work with a category that has a
million entries in it (and yes there are categories that big)
-bawolff
On 2013-04-11 11:56 AM, "Small M" <smallman1z(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
One of the demo collections originally shown in pivot was wikipedia
article's
sorted by category. Though the collections are no longer up, you
can see videos at:
silverlight
control). So it can be done.
-Small
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From: Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com>
To: Small M <smallman1z(a)yahoo.com>om>; wikitech-l <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category
On 2013-04-10 10:25 PM, "Small M" <smallman1z(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> Are there any plans to have a tool that would allow to dynamically sort
content based on category? Single category views, especially for large
categories, aren't particularly helpful.
Something similar to what Microsoft's pivot demo had?
An HTML5 example at:
http://pivot.lobsterpot.com.au/pass2012.htm
-Small
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https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l No, there are no current
plans for doing this. Interesting idea though.
If I understand you correctly you
want a category page where things are
grouped by what other categories a page is a member of.
I don't think such a thing can be done in an
efficient manner for big
categories given the way category membership is currently
stored.
-bawolff