The Cunctator wrote:
From: Magnus Manske on Friday, December 12, 2003 3:59 AM
Which in no way hinders us to take one (existing) list or the other (e.g., [[List of biology topics]]), and run a bot (once) adding "[[Category:Biology]]" on all pages listed there. The [[List of
biology
topics]] will then be obsolete and can be redirected to [[Category:Biology]].
How does this deal with, say, [[list of sports]] which is not just a alphabetical list?
I am aware that not all the "list of" things can be dumped into a bot like that. I looked at [[list of sports]], and several of the "groups" already have their own article (e.g., [[gymnastics]]). So, what I'd do is, mark *all* the articles on [[list of sports]] as [[Category:sport]], and then some also as [[Category:Extreme sports]] etc., with [[Category:Extreme sports]] marked as [[Category:sport]].
That will result in a *long* alphabetical list on [[Category:sport]], but that page will also show links to its immediate subcategories, [[Category:Extreme sports]] among them. There, you can find that section.
We can work on the display details, though: On a category page with more than 100 articles and more than 5 subcategories, we could skip the list of articles by default and present only the links to the sub-categories, as well as a link "show all articles in this category". That will save rendering and bandwith.
Magnus