Categories should display breadcrumb navigation
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	• bzimport
	Feb 21 2005, 10:34 AM

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Author: flamurai

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Categories should display breadcrumb navigation of their supercategories.

There are a few issues here that would have to be decided:

How many categories do you go back?
How do you deal with a broad category tree?

Example:

Category:Canadian ice hockey

  Team sports      <    Ice hockey     < Ice hockey by country
 Winter sports     <                   |
Olympic sports     <                   |
    Hockey         <                   |
                                       |
    Sports         < Sports by country <

Categories by country <

As you can see, it can get a bit out of hand, though I think a formula can be
developed taking into account the breath, depth, and total number of categories
displayed to balance the number of categories displayed without being overwhelming.

This is the web: we should take advantage of its non-linearity. The category
system is in its infancy, as far as I'm concerned.

This is related to bug 1497.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz1571

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:12 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Categories.

• bzimport set Reference to bz1571.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Feb 21 2005, 10:34 AM

flamurai wrote:

I just realized that example wasn't even complete. This is a tough usability
challenge since the tree grows very fast, but I think that even expanding the
direct supercategories is a benefit.

richholton wrote:

I can perhaps see some usefulness for something like this as a "special:" page
(something like "what links here"), but to somehow incorporate it into each
category page would really clutter the user interface, and might add too much load.

There is a category browser in MediaWiki already, please not
it is not set on wikipedia for performance reasons.

In LocalSettings.php :

$wgUseCategoryBrowser = true;

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