Last modified: 2012-08-14 11:27:25 UTC
Gentlemen, there is no way anybody is going to sift through all the empty (no text, yes members) categories (2000+ on my wikis) to ever be able to learn about the real "wanted pages" buried deep within. But why should they be forced to? There already is a separate Wanted Categories special page! This patch fixes Wantedpages so it no longer jumbles in what is already separately in Wantedcategories. I hope my SQL is efficient. However one notices there are already also additional special pages these days to find Wanted Files, Wanted Templates. So please enhance the patch to further not jumble those in too! Sure there are other requests in bugzilla to add a selector, and consolidate the various Wanted*, but I'm talking about a problem that makes Wantedpages unusable... so while we're waiting for the 'final solution' please fix this problem.
Created attachment 5982 [details] patch
Closing this bug as INVALID. A pagelink entry are only made if a category is linked as [[:Category:Foo]]; this makes the category show in Special:WantedPages, but not in Special:WantedCategories. If the category is added as [[Category:Foo]], that will make the catefory show in Special:WantedCategories, but not in SpecialWantedPages. I have however committed the change to php defined for the namespaces in r50708. Thanks for that.
But linking both ways is exactly what my http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Template:C does, a thousand times. Well, you could add a checkbox: "exclude categories?"
I do not see anything that would warrent this. As I have explained, pagelinks and categorie membership are the differences in what is being reported on WantedPages vs. WantedCategories. If you really want this for your wiki, feel free to implement it in there as a core patch, but MediaWiki proper shouldn't be burdened with it in my opinion.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4204 ***
