https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16807
Summary: show number of leaf articles in parentheses instead of
number of number of subcategories
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Categories
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Consider a typical category page, such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Science
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_needing_attention .
Currently, the user sees various subcategories, such as "Dance articles needing
attention," followed by a number in parentheses, indicating the number of
subcategories in this category.
Let the set D of "descendant categories" of a category X be the least set such
that
a) X is in D,
b) If a category Y is in D, all subcategories of Y are in D.
Let the set of "leaf articles" of X be the (nondisjoint) union of all articles
belonging to a descendant category of X.
I propose that the number in parentheses be the number of leaf articles of X,
instead of the number of subcategories of X.
Rationale:
a) This number is more useful: when I see "Dance articles needing attention" or
"Philosophy of Science," what I really want to know at a glance are how many
dance articles need attention, or how many articles there are about the
philosophy of science. Rarely am I as interested in how many subcategories have
been created of these topics.
b) This number is less confusing: A user who sees "Youth science (0)" may be
inclined to think there are no articles on Wikipedia about youth science. This
point is closely related to a), and both sprout from the number of leaf
articles being a more "natural" number to associate to a category than the
number of subcategories.
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