Last modified: 2011-04-14 15:12:47 UTC
Gentlemen, I hereby propose Special:OnlyPages. Special:OnlyPages differs from Special:AllPages in that whereas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages/Cheese starts at Cheese and just goes on and on without any bottom bound until the page is filled up, the new http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:OnlyPages/Cheese would just list articles that start with Cheese, and no more. Special:OnlyPages is not meant to replace Special:AllPages, but to compliment it. Whereas Special:AllPages is oddly missing a bottom bound, Special:OnlyPages bounds both top and bottom nonprejudicially. Special:OnlyPages will certainly be easy for you to (please) implement: Just a MySQL query on SORT INDEX CHEESE or SORT PAGE MATCH ^CHEESE or whatever the SQL for it is. Indeed perhaps even allow regular expressions.
This already exists as [[Special:PrefixIndex]].
OK, glad that that is taken care of. Now let's turn to part II of the no lower bound problem: a way to make http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Special:Categories&offset=CTCSS&uselang=en not spill over into the categories beyond. I just want the categories starting with "CTCSS". One cannot use Special:PrefixIndex, as the CTCSS categories are hollow: have members but no text. No I don't want to use an API as this is meant for everyday users.
Also please implement Bug #8881 if you implement this.
