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 Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:36:02 +0100, Ori Livneh ori@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.
-- Matma Rex
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