[Wiktionary-l] Using big categories

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Big categories were a big systems problem. In order to make this problem 
manageable, the amount or articles that are shown at a time have been 
limited to 200 at a time. This proved to be rather akward when you want 
to find an article one starting with an character at the end of the 
alphabet. MukeUTF-8 (nick on IRC) came up with a simple elegant 
solution. He created some code to have a Table of Content (TOC) and hid 
it in a template. The first implementation is in 
http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Lingua_Latina 
<http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Lingua_Latina> and uses 
Template:Categorytoc This is a template for use from A to Z.

On the nl:wiktionary we have lower case characters so the code was 
expanded in Sjabloon:CategorieTOC and it can be seen at work in  
http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:Woorden_in_het_Nederlands 
<http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:Woorden_in_het_Nederlands> I 
have also implemented a Template:CategoryTOC (AZaz) in Commons and a 
Template:CategoriaTOC 
<http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:CategoriaTOC> in the Italian 
wiktioanry.

My thanks go out to Muke, this is a great improvement on the usability 
for categories :)

Thanks,
    GerardM 
<http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:Woorden_in_het_Nederlands>