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:::Hm, couldn't we do a hybrid category page / real page thing to fix the exsting category pages? Leave the category pages as empty pages, move all their text to a new page with the categories name, and at the bottom of the new page use the trick described by Haama in the Misc section titled "Some Page-as-Template notes"? That should render the list of categories as displayed on the category page, but provide a "real" page for users to search for that can also contain the descriptive text previously located on the category page. | :::Hm, couldn't we do a hybrid category page / real page thing to fix the exsting category pages? Leave the category pages as empty pages, move all their text to a new page with the categories name, and at the bottom of the new page use the trick described by Haama in the Misc section titled "Some Page-as-Template notes"? That should render the list of categories as displayed on the category page, but provide a "real" page for users to search for that can also contain the descriptive text previously located on the category page. | ||
:::--[[User:SnakeChomp|SnakeChomp]] 06:07, 25 December 2008 (UTC) | :::--[[User:SnakeChomp|SnakeChomp]] 06:07, 25 December 2008 (UTC) | ||
::::The main problem with categories is that they are automatically created, sorted, and organized - alphabetically. They have hard-coded limits on how many articles appear per page, and searching through a large category is annoying. The ideal is a manually created list, a la the [[Settings]] page you've been working on - that page is excellent. That's what we want for everything. The automatic list is rarely used by anyone except editors and bots on most Wikis, and they are generally awkward for users to use. | |||
::::Partially, though, I can't answer your question. I don't fully understand ''why'' Categories are awkward for people to use - I just know from experience that they are. Lots of people can't find ''anything'' on the CSwiki, apparently due largely to this solitary fact. We've done a lot to try to improve that, but the situation is still pretty poor there. We want to avoid that at this Wiki. | |||
::::[[User:DragoonWraith|DragoonWraith]] · [[User talk:DragoonWraith|talk]] · 17:08, 25 December 2008 (UTC) | |||