Steve Bennett schrieb:
On 8/21/06, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
I have. It's in the current code, turned off. It's a filter to mass-sift through articles fast. The only implemented use (also turned off) is to filter Recent Changes to show only articles in a category *and its subcategories*. I have asked to turn it on for testing some time ago, but was more or less ignored (as usual;-).
It could be tested on one of the smaller wikis to check what impact it would have on en or de.
How does it cope with category cycles?
IIRC it remembers which categories were already checked, and doesn't cycle forever ;-)
Also, it starts with the categories a given list of articles are in, then goes *down* through the tree, towards the parent/root (or was the "up"? I keep forgetting), and checks if it finds a given category.
Basically I feel that since we have no real definition of what "subcategory" means (on en, at least), it's not that meaningful at this stage to presume that subcategories should be searched along with the main category. Or perhaps the user should be able to choose whether or not that's meaningful for the category he's searching...
Well, saying "show me recent changes in biology and subcategories" is definitely something I'd enjoy.
Magnus