Author: jmfayard
Description:
Hello,
in Mediawiki, we deeply miss an HISTORY of a categeory.
I don't mean the history of the small text above the list of articles in the
category, but which article was added or removed from the categeory.
Take something like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:NPOV_disputes
This category is useless, because you have no way to know which article was
recently added to the category (it make be interesting to look at it) or removed
from the category (an indication that the npov dispute was resolved).
I want a link in the toolbox of this category which could like a bit like a log :
HISTORY OF THE "CATEGORY NPOV_DISPUTE"
19:42, 10 April 2006 Butterflys removed "Islamophobia" (ok, the article is
fine now)
19:24, 10 April 2006 Butterflys added "Islamophobia" (the article seems to be
written by islamists)
19:20, 10 April 2006 Rhindle The Red added "9/11 conspiracy theories" (the
article is shit, see talk page)
19:19, 10 April 2006 Petros471 added "An Anarchist FAQ" (NPOV : the article
insults anarchists)
How it works ? It is quite simple to understand. I edit an article and for each
category that was just added or removed from the article, mediawiki will add a
line in the history of the corresponding category.
The fact that shows that we miss this feature a lot is that we have to
constantly reinvent it and manage it by hand.
For example, in the french wikipedia, we do manually exactly this for the list
of NPOV articles
See http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:LANN
PS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:NPOV_disputes
doesn't do the job, because there is a hell lot more than just the addition and
removal of articles, and worse there is no way to know that or when an article
was removed from a category.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Platform: PC