It's the latter; the hierarchical list will not be displayed if there are
over 50,000 pages.
See the relevant bug <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56840>
and the relevant patch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95085/> for more
information.
Dan
On 13 November 2013 12:24, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hold on, are we talking about removing
Special:Allpages altogether or
just disabling the hierarchical view? If it's the former, It's not OK.
Even for large wikis, it allows you to see near-by pages, such as
pages with different diacritic signs, but which denote the same
subject.
Strainu
2013/11/13 Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Tim made the point that for a wiki with a very
small set of pages (say,
100
pages) pages, Special:Allpages can be useful as
it lets you get an
overview
of the content of the wiki. That's obviously
not too applicable to wikis
like the English Wikipedia, especially if it's creating a lot of
performance issues.
Dan
On 13 November 2013 11:02, Bartosz DziewoĆski <matma.rex(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:36:02 +0100, Ori Livneh <ori(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
From my perspective, the ideal outcome of this discussion would be
that we agree that the hierarchical list is a
poor fit for the
MediaWiki of today, and we resolve to remove it from core.
+1. I've never understood what purpose the Special:Allpages layout was
supposed to serve.
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