It's the latter; the hierarchical list will not be displayed if there are over 50,000 pages.
See the relevant bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56840 and the relevant patch https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95085/ for more information.
Dan
On 13 November 2013 12:24, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
Hold on, are we talking about removing Special:Allpages altogether or just disabling the hierarchical view? If it's the former, It's not OK. Even for large wikis, it allows you to see near-by pages, such as pages with different diacritic signs, but which denote the same subject.
Strainu
2013/11/13 Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org:
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.
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