Author: folengo

Description:
[[:en:Help:Category#Category_page]] says : «A category page consists of: (...) list of subcategories; (...) With the Category Tree extension, installed on Wikimedia, one can click "+" to see the subcategories of a selected subcategory».

This is a nice tool to go downwards in the category tree, but a similar tool is needed to climb upwards to the top of the hierarchy.

As clicking step by step to a category several levels higher takes a lot of clicks and a lot of time (one might add : a lot of server resources), such a tool would be useful.

For example, going from [[:en:Snoopy]] to [[:en:Category:Animals]], through [[:en:Category:Fictional dogs]], [[:en:Category:Fictional mammals]], [[:en:Category:Mammals]], [[:en:Category:Vertebrates]], [[Category:Chordates]] requires 6 clicks and 6 calls to the server. With that new tool, you would need only 3 clicks and 2 calls to the server.

I think this new supercategory "+" click should be displayed either near each supercategory link at the bottom of each category page, or next to each subcategory "+" click.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement