[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

[Earle Martin]

On 14/02/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On a serious note, though, I happen to use the Classic skin as my
> default and I don't have any problem with this at all. If this sort of
> thing _was_ sufficiently annoying to me I could put "#catlinks
> {display:none}" in my custom CSS like what I did to get rid of the stub
> templates, or just switch to one of the other skins that puts the
> catlinks at the bottom. Wikipedia's display format is highly
> configurable so I don't consider this to be a paprticularly strong
> example of "harm".

It would be useful if there were preference switches for what one
wanted to see, i.e. "Don't show: [ ] article categories [ ] stub
messages ...",  and so on, a la the kind of display configuration you
get on Slashdot and similar sites, that would set user CSS
appropriately. While technical users such as ourselves may be
comfortable with editing CSS files, many other users are not.


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