Last modified: 2012-07-26 20:50:05 UTC
Similar to {{PAGESINCATEGORY:categoryname}} and {{PAGESINCAT:Help}}, please define a new magic word that counts just the number of media in a category. For commons, the number of pages/subcategories isn't generally that interesting, but the number of media (images/photos/videos etc.) is. The information might already be available somewhere as parent categories already display the number of files, pages and subcategories separately.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14237 ***
I rather see a magic word that's there just for media. Commons needs primarily this, not all others.
This should be a param for PAGESINCATEGORY to allow the following syntax: * {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat}} * {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|all}} - as alias for the first one * {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|files}} * {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|subcats}} * {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|pages}} - this number is not stored in the database, but should be compute by "all - files - subcats"
If {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|files}} ever gets implemented, {{MEDIAINCATEGORY:cat}} could be an alias for this. bug 14237 dates from 2008, so it seems unlikely that it will ever get done. There isn't really a clear use for most other cases anyway. If {{MEDIAINCATEGORY:cat}} is implemented, {{PAGESINCATEGORY:cat|files}} could be an alias for {{MEDIAINCATEGORY:cat}}.
Gerrit change #12790 is successfully merged You can use {{PAGESINCATEGORY:catname|files}} or {{PAGESINCATEGORY:catname|files|R}} or {{PAGESINCATEGORY:catname|R|files}} to get the count of files inside the category.
