Author: gryllida
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Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T72819 Category pages should expose the timestamp sort option | ||
| Open | None | T46667 Allow multiple collations in same site and configure zh collations | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T223750 Include pinyin for zhwiki damaging model | ||
| Open | Feature | None | T170049 Chinese site category pages should be able to sort pages by Hanyu Pinyin |
[The ticket does not describe a bug but a request for additional functionality. Hence setting priority to "enhancement".]
Sounds like a WONTFIX, this is what CategoryTree or DynamicPageList are for. Maybe move in the component of either, to offer an in-category interface as well?
Semi related to bug 69417.
Use case wise: There's lots of use cases for maintinance categories on wikipedia, as well as certain categories on commons (e.g. The uploaded by mobile web category, it would be useful in order to get an idea of latest uploads by mobile).
gryllida wrote:
Nemo said
Sounds like a WONTFIX, this is what CategoryTree or
This does not appear to be able to sort by time.
Nemo said
DynamicPageList are for.
DPL does not scale for big wikis. This could or could not change with the help of Wikidata, I dunno.
Even if DPL scalability gets fixed, I can see many people using categories for maintainance tasks, -- and manually placing a DPL tag on /all thousands/ of categories doesn't appear to make sense to me.
Bawolff said
... would make sense if we already have an interface for multiple collations
Sorry, I'm not sure what a "collation" *is*. I have no idea on the implications here.
I suppose implementing this bug might involve extra prefs for user's preferred default mode for viewing categories.
Bawolff said
... would make sense if we already have an interface for multiple collations
Sorry, I'm not sure what a "collation" *is*. I have no idea on the
implications here.
Collation is fancy word for "way to sort something". Liangent was working on a thing to allow categories to be sorted multiple different ways (The "chinese-collation" branch). I'm not really sure what the status of that work is now, it seems stalled, but if we're doing that, it seems like tacking sort by date on to that work makes sense (Even if on the backend its implemented totally differently). [I should note: I say this without looking at the code and only vague memories of how the chinese collation stuff would look like]
One potential complicating factor, is that sort by date is only efficient if we don't separate out into three separate sections for subcats, pages, and files (due to current db indexes), which might complicate an interface.