On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:38 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I'm basing this claim on the remarkable effort people go to to get things to sort on the category page *just right*. People clearly use this feature, and work hard to use it.
Take it to the VP (technical) on en:wp and I would be amazed if people don't protest hugely at the prospect of it disappearing. Maybe I'm wrong, but asking the users would be a good idea first.
Feel free to do so if you think it's an issue. It wouldn't be terribly hard to keep the current behavior, I don't think.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Brad Jorsch b-jorsch@northwestern.edu wrote:
"Categorymembers namespace filtering is inefficient, uses ugly hack in miser mode", https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19640 , is also very related.
I personally don't think it's worth fixing. The likelihood of error in keeping the categorylinks table up-to-date with page moves is just too great to be worth bothering over.