Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Search and Categories/Limit which namespaces are allowed in a category on the category page itself
Limit which namespaces are allowed in a category on the category page itself
- Problem: In order to avoid unwanted pages from polluting categories intended for certain namespaces, we waste our time and effort manually removing or commenting out
[[Category:...]]
and coding templates to prevent unwanted pages from being added to categories. - Proposed solution: A magic word or extension tag to be used inside category page wikitext that determines which namespaces are allowed (or not allowed) in the category.
- Who would benefit: Readers and editors
- More comments: Got 41 votes last year.
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Nardog (talk) 18:20, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
- Do we have a good system for letting editors know how to select categories? At present, editors just search for category names they think may fit, but there isn't any information about how each category is intended to be used. For instance, many universities have a "University of X alumni" category. However, some categories are "Alumni of University of X". Sometimes, there's just a "University of X" category without alumni. The category keepers may intend the latter to not include alumni, but editors add alumni because there's not an alumni category. As such, it may be helpful to include a short description (much like for Wikilinks) for each category to let the editor know how the category is being used. (This is also not to mention how obnoxious finding correct categories can be). Significa liberdade (talk) 22:12, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Voting
- Support * Pppery * it has begun 04:01, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support EpicPupper (talk) 05:30, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Muted Red Tulip (talk) 08:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support This would certainly save wasted time and effort removing pages from categories Simeon (talk) 12:07, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Tiputini (talk) 13:29, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Bluerasberry (talk) 15:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support --NGC 54 (talk|contribs) 00:58, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Betseg (talk) 03:55, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 00:47, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 05:39, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:27, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support مهدی بهرامی مطلق (talk) 09:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Hey man im josh (talk) 16:55, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support —(ping on reply)—CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 22:19, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:19, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support This may be useful for drafts, and to implementing WP:DRAFTNOCAT. Thingofme (talk) 15:37, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support cyrfaw (talk) 15:00, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support — Draceane talkcontrib. 11:39, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support hgzh 07:22, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support. —— Eric Liu(Talk) 04:02, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support--SunAfterRain 11:55, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support CmdrDan (talk) 17:04, 24 February 2023 (UTC)