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Allow more/fewer than 200 pages to be viewed at once in a category
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Author: matthew.britton

Description:
It would be nice if the contents of categories could be viewed X pages at a time, for some X other than 200.

Implementation of this would probably best be done in such a way that it matches what is already available for certain special pages (such as [[Special:Contributions]]) - a "limit" parameter in the URL, and a series of links next to the "previous 200" and "next 200" links to change the number of items per page.

If the 5,000-item limit applicable to those special pages is feasible here, great; if not, use whatever is acceptable. I certainly don't think that the limit needs to be more than 5,000 items.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:55 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Categories.
• bzimport set Reference to bz11281.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Sep 10 2007, 11:24 PM
Bawolff added a comment.Jan 15 2011, 1:09 AM

Note, $wgCategoryPagingLimit can be set in LocalSettings.php for something other then 200, but it sounds like you're looking for a non-hard coded limit.

• MZMcBride added a subscriber: • MZMcBride.Mar 8 2015, 5:46 AM
• MZMcBride added subscribers: Jdlrobson, matmarex, Legoktm, Isarra.Mar 8 2015, 5:50 AM

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgCategoryPagingLimit

I've also found the hardcoded maximum of 200 items per page when viewing a large category to be less than ideal.

Raising $wgCategoryPagingLimit seems like an easy option. But I'd like to brainstorm other possible approaches here.

Isarra added a comment.Mar 8 2015, 5:59 AM

Something like on special:log and the like where it shows the first <blah> by default but you have options to change the blah to another number as well as go to the previous/next blah?

I'd like that.

Bugreporter merged a task: T142704: Increase number of sub-categories and/or entries shown on a category page.Aug 11 2016, 12:43 PM
Bugreporter added subscribers: Matthiasb, Aklapper.
Danny_B added a subscriber: Danny_B.Aug 11 2016, 1:50 PM
In T13281#1098810, @Isarra wrote:

Something like on special:log and the like where it shows the first <blah> by default but you have options to change the blah to another number as well as go to the previous/next blah?

I'd like that.

+1

Liuxinyu970226 added a subscriber: Liuxinyu970226.Nov 15 2017, 1:47 PM
MB-one added a subscriber: MB-one.Oct 30 2018, 12:25 PM
Liuxinyu970226 awarded a token.Nov 11 2018, 12:28 PM
Dvorapa added a subscriber: Dvorapa.Nov 18 2018, 5:21 PM
MB-one raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.Nov 23 2018, 9:59 PM
Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Nov 25 2018, 12:40 PM

@MB-one: Do you plan to work on fixing this task, as you increased the priority of this task?

Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE added subscribers: TheDJ, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE.Mar 31 2021, 12:59 PM

Copying part of a comment from @TheDJ on the community wishlist survey 2021:

There is a performance aspect to this. Hitting the thumbnail server with potentially hundreds of requests (some which might be rendered already, others needing to be generated) is simply a very expensive operation, compared to text. As such with the current structure, it is unlikely that over 250 images on a page is desirable.

This is one way in which category pages differ from other lists that already have user-configurable limits (recent changes, log, etc.).

And for the purpose of cross-linking: apart from 2021 (linked above), this issue was also discussed 2019 and 2017.

Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE merged a task: T278939: Add possibility to change number items per category page .Mar 31 2021, 1:00 PM
Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE added a subscriber: Discostu.
DerHexer added a subscriber: DerHexer.Mar 31 2021, 1:00 PM
Discostu added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 1:30 PM
In T13281#6960429, @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE wrote:

This is one way in which category pages differ from other lists that already have user-configurable limits (recent changes, log, etc.).

New files also has thumbnails and can be set to up to 500 items per page

TheDJ added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 3:17 PM
In T13281#6960615, @Discostu wrote:
In T13281#6960429, @Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE wrote:

This is one way in which category pages differ from other lists that already have user-configurable limits (recent changes, log, etc.).

New files also has thumbnails and can be set to up to 500 items per page

Which is how we know that this is a problem :)

Discostu added a comment.Mar 31 2021, 6:49 PM

@TheDJ So remove it from there? I don't like inconsistencies 😩

valerio.bozzolan added a subscriber: valerio.bozzolan.May 10 2021, 8:33 AM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:01 AM
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