Last modified: 2014-05-14 22:22:56 UTC
Hello. On the French Wikipedia, we have added a "toolbox" for categories, seen on [[:fr:MediaWiki:Categoryarticlecount]]. It points to several tools on the toolserver as well as internal tools (eg CategoryTree). Yet, the current use has problems : 1) when a category contains no articles but only images or subcategories, it doesn't show up (and I don't think it's a good idea to duplicate it under each header). 2) it shows up in the middle of the page, which is not very intuitive for users. It would be more convenient to have a message like MediaWiki:Categorypagesub (pick a better name :-)) which would be displayed either under the title (top of the page) or at the bottom of the page; but I don't know which location would be best. Thanks.
Hi Rémi! Sorry that nobody has taken a look at this report yet and given feedback. (In reply to Rémi Kaupp from comment #0) > On the French Wikipedia, we have added a "toolbox" for categories, > seen on [[:fr:MediaWiki:Categoryarticlecount]]. Following that link I get: Cette page a été supprimée (from 2008 already). Looks like it redirects to https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Category-article-count now. Which displays Erreur d’expression : opérateur '''<''' inattendu. for me.
(whoo, I didn’t notice this bug, although I did an action close to it.) I guess the (1) of the initial report has been fixed a long time ago: iirc back to 2006 the messages category-files-count and category-subcat-counts didn’t exist. The current error is only displayed on the MediaWiki: page since the Lua/template code behind is only working on category pages. If I understand correctly the initial proposition, the idea is to create a message "MediaWiki:Category-toolbox" before or after the wikitext of the category to show some toolbox. In this case, it is simply adding an empty (by default) message system in some place in the category pages, but before or after the wikitext is a usability issue. Perhaps adding it in the top of the page would be better to allow a toolbox in float:right, since category pages usually have a few wikitext. Or adding two messages before and after the wikitext, I don’t know if the choice should be given. See e.g. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Snowboard?uselang=qqx to see the structure of a category page with all system messages displayed (this category currently has the three types of pages: subcategories, pages, files).
