MediaWiki has an experimental configuration flag $wgUseCategoryBrowser that alters the appearance of categories. If you don't use this flag or are not aware of it you can safely ignore this message.
We plan to remove this configuration flag and associated code in MediaWiki 1.38 without deprecation warnings given its experimental nature: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298553
If needed an extension can provide the same functionality, so if anyone needs this functionality please let us know by replying to this email or the Phabricator ticket to help guide us better.
Thanks for reading Jon
Jon,
Here;s a thought:
Does the extension to provide equivalent capability exist yet? Does the MW team plan to write one? If not, why not wait until the extension is written and the option to use it is available before deprecating the function provided by $wgUseCategoryBrowser ?
Keith
On Thu, 2022-01-06 at 11:26 -0700, Keith Christian wrote:
Does the extension to provide equivalent capability exist yet? Does the MW team plan to write one? If not, why not wait until the extension is written and the option to use it is available before deprecating the function provided by $wgUseCategoryBrowser ?
Spending time to implement stuff that nobody may ever need or use is not a good use of time. That's the reason for the public call to please provide specific use cases. Waiting (and not removing cruft) leads to a code base becoming less and less maintainable and more buggy.
Cheers, andre
Makes sense, Andre.
Thanks to all of you on the Mediawiki project for the great work!
Jon and I have been discussing how such an extension would look like in the mentioned task, as there is a requirement to change MediaWiki to make the category browser possible as an extension. However, as I mentioned in that task, if no one is actually interested in such a feature, I'm not going to bother spending time working on it.
So, using that opportunity; if you (or anyone else) can't live without this feature and would like to see it return in an extension, please let us known by commenting on the task.
Mainframe98
Hello I have been welcome to this wonderful world of wiki and I am so excited to begin any progression and making forward movements and decisions in helping people be inspired to do the love we have all seemingly been called to do I would love to respond on any tests I am new so I do not understand all of the assignments yet but I have made very good progress in understanding what the wikis bring to this site and what MediaWiki brings to the world and I know I could have important input and creative genius in this realm of life I just may need a little more guidance as far as jumping in the pool of community I will look forward to your response in the meantime I’ll try to figure out the answers for myself God bless
On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:52 AM Klaas Skelte van der Werf < mainframe98@outlook.com> wrote:
Jon and I have been discussing how such an extension would look like in the mentioned task, as there is a requirement to change MediaWiki to make the category browser possible as an extension. However, as I mentioned in that task, if no one is actually interested in such a feature, I'm not going to bother spending time working on it.
So, using that opportunity; if you (or anyone else) can't live without this feature and would like to see it return in an extension, please let us known by commenting on the task.
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It makes perfect sense to add the category list it would definitely help narrow down what I’m trying to search for and how to word it
On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 10:12 AM Keith Christian keith1christian@gmail.com wrote:
Makes sense, Andre.
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