On 22/02/2008, Mark Clements gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
"Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote in message news:fplp2t$3i3$1@ger.gmane.org...
Put __HIDDENCAT__ on the category page to hide that category from the list at the bottom of the article pages. This feature is intended to reduce the clutter from maintenance categories like [[Category:Articles with unsourced statements since December 2007]].
Wouldn't it be better to use something like __ADMINCAT__ (either as well, or instead of, the above)? This would indicate that the category is used for administering the wiki, rather than for navigating the content. For pages with admin categories, a second category box 'Administrative categories' would be added, which can be expanded/collapsed (collapsed by default) so these categories can still be found and used by editors.
Something semantic would seem better, yes. Are there other meanings for which you'd want to hide the category? And should stub categories be hidden by default?
- d.