Hoi, Big categories were a big systems problem. In order to make this problem manageable, the amount or articles that are shown at a time have been limited to 200 at a time. This proved to be rather akward when you want to find an article one starting with an character at the end of the alphabet. MukeUTF-8 (nick on IRC) came up with a simple elegant solution. He created some code to have a Table of Content (TOC) and hid it in a template. The first implementation is in http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Lingua_Latina http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Lingua_Latina and uses Template:Categorytoc This is a template for use from A to Z.
On the nl:wiktionary we have lower case characters so the code was expanded in Sjabloon:CategorieTOC and it can be seen at work in http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:Woorden_in_het_Nederlands http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:Woorden_in_het_Nederlands I have also implemented a Template:CategoryTOC (AZaz) in Commons and a Template:CategoriaTOC http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:CategoriaTOC in the Italian wiktioanry.
My thanks go out to Muke, this is a great improvement on the usability for categories :)
Thanks, GerardM http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:Woorden_in_het_Nederlands
I also find it unfortunate that not all subcategories are shown on the first page of the category, and it is even not indicated in any way that there might be more of them to a first-time visitor...
This is slightly off topic, but I'll say it anyway. IMO a feature needed in categorisation is a "collapse subcategories" view - basically you click this and instead of showing you subcategories it shows all the articles in the subcategories (and in their subcategories...) with the articles in that cat. This would be very useful in category areas with very few articles in them.
A Happy New Year to everyone, John (Ludraman)
On 28 Dec 2004, at 22:49, Pawe³ 'Ausir' Dembowski wrote:
I also find it unfortunate that not all subcategories are shown on the first page of the category, and it is even not indicated in any way that there might be more of them to a first-time visitor...
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Pawe³ 'Ausir' Dembowski (fallout@lexx.eu.org) [041229 13:58]:
I also find it unfortunate that not all subcategories are shown on the first page of the category, and it is even not indicated in any way that there might be more of them to a first-time visitor...
I filed bugs on this (one that all subcats aren't shown on first page, and one that the number of subcats or articles is incorrect). At present I assume the devs are busy getting 1.4 to work properly ...
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