Last modified: 2008-03-24 20:10:54 UTC
Lists and comparisons can have duplicate data. Consider [[en:List of BitTorrent clients]] and [[en:List of applications supporting BitTorrent]]. All the information on the first page is on the second page, but under the current system, the data is stored twice. Also, on the first page, some clients belong in more than one section - more duplication. With duplication, checks and updates are harder and it is easier for data to become outdated. We might want to look further, like the individual clients' articles' categories.
i don't understand the relation of this bug to mediawiki. do you want to propose some extension to the category system?
Yes, but I also want to propose a feature to extract a list from other information, such as [[en:Comparison of applications supporting BitTorrent]].
A category is just a list so the extension to the category system would build upon this capability to extract lists.
Not a real bug. Suggest http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList, will probably help best.
