Without knowing exactly what you are trying to achieve here, it sound from your descriptions like you might find the Semantic MediaWiki family of extensions useful. It lets you store pieces of data together with a page, and you have far better ways to display this data in arbitrary ways, or making lists of articles based on such data, than by just hacking around with categories. http://semantic-mediawiki.org/ /Leo
_______________Leonard [email protected]@leo_wallentin+46 (0) 735 - 933 543 > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 17:31:17 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is there a limit on the number of categories? > > Oh no ;) Each page will only have a few. I may have a setup where each page > is not an article, per se, but host some data along with some free-form text. > I just need a way to organize them by topic and using the Category > functionality seemed the easiest way. But, I have no experience working with > MW at all so I don't know if that's the best way. I don't see any other kind > of organizing functionality. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Platonides <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 3:51 PM > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Is there a limit on the number of categories? > > On 01/12/12 00:36, Al Johnson wrote: > > I'm thinking of an implementation that may have 100 thousand categories. > > Is that possible? Is there a documented limit? Would there be a > > performance hit? > > > > Thanks, > > Al > > No, you can have an arbitrarily large number of categories. > > I hope you won't try to add all of them at once to a single article, > though :) > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
