Last modified: 2006-11-03 05:52:05 UTC
When an article belongs to one or more categories, there's a box that contains links to the categories that this article belongs to. The first item in this box is a link to [[Special:Categories|Categories]], and it appears that this is hard coded (at least, a search for "Special: Categories" in [[:en:Special:Allmessages]] returned no results). Please add a new message in the Wikimedia namespace that can be used to customise this link. For example, some wikipedias might want this link to go to a help page or a human-edited overview of categories, instead of to a machine-generated list of categories.
*** Bug 489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 1834 [details] patch against trunk (r14404) Attached you will find a patch with following changes: 1) Link [[Special:Categories]] in Skin.php is now set by a message 'categorybarlink' and thereby customizable in [[Special:Allmessages]] if wanted. 2) The message 'categories' until now was twice used by Skin.php (see above) and [[Special:Categories]] (displayed as page title). Now it is possible to localize it better then before because there are no more dependencies. When changed to "All categories" f.e. it is analogue to 'allpages' (All pages) and looks better in the list on [[Special:Specialpages]]. This patch introduces the following new messages: 'categorybartext' (cloned from 'categories') 'categorybarlink' (should be localized only by Special:Allmessages) 'categorybar' (should not be localized)
I changed the priority to 'High', because this is an important issue for several years, and there is already a patch made some months ago. On category pages in big wikis it is linking to a page with only the first 50 categories from thousands of categories. So most visitors are directed to a useless page when they are searching for other categories. In my opinion the best page to link it to is the root category. On most wikis you can find there an index and other info about the category system.
Fixed in r17370.
