"Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote in message news:fpmqa3$hob$1@ger.gmane.org...
David Gerard wrote:
On 22/02/2008, Mark Clements
gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
"Tim Starling" tstarling@wikimedia.org
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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?
You can always use a template, if you want semantic annotation. A template containing __HIDDENCAT__ would make any category that included it a hidden category.
That wasn't really the point of my original suggestion. The point is that it would be more useful to separate out the administrative categories (aimed at editors) from the standard categories (aimed at readers). Both should be displayed on the page, but separated from each other (with, as I say, the admin categories initially hidden if JS is enabled).
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)